Exporting Administrators

To export administrator and authority definitions for one or more administrators from a server to sequential media, complete the following fields and then click Finish, or click Cancel to end this task.

Administrator Name

Select an administrator name. Use the wild card character (*) to export information for all the administrators in the list. The default is *.

Preview

Select an option. This parameter is optional.

Yes You want to preview the results of the export operation, without actually exporting administrator information. Information on the number and types of objects exported, together with the number of bytes transferred are reported to the server console and the activity log. You do not need to specify device or volume parameters. Volumes will be required to hold the data.
No The administrator information is to be exported. You must specify a value for the Device Class parameter. The default is No.

Device Class

Select the device class to which the export data is to be written. You cannot specify the DISK or NAS device class. If the mount limit for the device class specified has already been reached (all drives are busy) when the export runs, Tivoli Storage Manager automatically cancels lower priority operations, such as reclamation, to make a mount point available for the export.  

Use Scratch Volumes

Select an option.  

Yes Scratch volumes can be used for the export. If you include a list of volumes on the Volume Names parameter, then scratch volumes are used only if there is not enough space to store the exported files on the volumes specified. If the device type associated with the specified device class is FILE, file names for scratch volumes are generated based on a time stamp. The default is Yes.
No Scratch volumes cannot be used for export. To determine how many volumes you may need, select Yes for the PREVIEW option on this panel.

Volume Names

Enter the names of one or more volumes used to contain the exported data.

volname The name of one or more volumes used to contain the exported data. You can specify more than one volume by separating each volume with a comma, with no intervening spaces.

Example: To use volumes TAPE01, TAPE02, TAPE03, specify the following: TAPE01, TAPE02, TAPE03

FILE: filename The name of a file that contains a list of volumes to use to store the exported data. Each volume name must be on a separate line within the file. Blank lines and comment lines beginning with an asterisk are ignored.

Example: To use TAPE01, TAPE02, and TAPE03, create a file named TAPEVOL that contains these lines:

TAPE01
TAPE02
TAPE03

You can then enter FILE:tapevol in the Volume Names entry field.

Use the following naming conventions when specifying volumes for each device type:

File Specify any fully qualified name string for your platform, for example:
AIX /exdata/mt1
HP-UX /exdata/mt1
Linux /dev/mt1
MVS ex.data.mt1
PASE /exdata/mt1
Sun Solaris /exdata/mt1
Windows  d:\win32app\ibm\adsm\server\data1.dsm
VM ex.data
Optical Specify 1-32 alphanumeric characters.
This field does not apply to Linux or OS/400 for PASE.
Removable file Specify 1-6 alphanumeric characters.
This field does not apply to OS/400 for PASE.
Server Specify 1-250 alphanumeric characters.
Tape Specify 1-6 alphanumeric characters.

Volume List File

Specify the name of a file where a list of volumes used in a successful export operation will be stored.

Note: If you specify this parameter with an existing file name, the existing file will be overwritten with the new information.