Querying Drmedia

To display information about disaster recovery volumes or to create a command file to process those volumes, first complete the following fields and then click Finish, or click Cancel to end the task. Disaster recovery volumes include database backup and copy storage pool volumes.

Volume Name

Enter the names of the database backup or copy storage pool volumes to be processed. You can use a wildcard character (*) to specify this name. All matching volumes are considered for processing. This parameter is optional. If you do not specify this field and the Copy Storage Pool field is not specified, all database backup volumes and all volumes in the copy storage pools defined by the Set Disaster Recovery Manager Copy Storage Pool panel are considered for processing.

State

Enter the current state of the volumes. This field is optional. The default is All.

Possible values are:

All Volumes in all states.
Mountable Volumes in the MOUNTABLE state, which are volumes that contain valid data and are accessible for onsite processing.
Notmountable Volumes in the NOTMOUNTABLE state, which are volumes that are onsite, contain valid data, and are not accessible for onsite processing.
Courier Volumes in the COURIER state, which are volumes that are with the courier and are being moved to an offsite location.
Vault Volumes in the VAULT state, which are volumes that are offsite, contain valid data, and are not accessible for onsite processing.
Vaultretrieve Volumes in the VAULTRETRIEVE state, which are volumes that do not contain valid data and are at the offsite vault.
Courierretrieve Volumes in the COURIERRETRIEVE state, which are volumes that are with the courier and being moved back to the onsite location.
Remote Volumes in the REMOTE state, which are volumes that contain valid data and are located at the offsite remote server.

Begin Date

Enter the beginning date used to select volumes. Volumes are considered eligible if the Move Drmedia processing has changed the state of the volume on or after the specified date. This field is optional. The default is the earliest date for which volume information exists.

Possible values are:

MM/DD/ YYYY Selects volumes that were changed to their current state on or after a specific date, using MM/DD/YYYY format.
TODAY Selects volumes that were changed to their current state today.
TODAY -days
 or
-days
Selects volumes that were changed to their current state beginning with a date determined by today minus a specific number of days. The maximum value for the number of days is 9999. For example, to move volumes beginning with records changed to their current state a week ago, specify TODAY-7 or simply -7.

End Date

Enter the ending date used to select volumes. Volumes are considered eligible if Move Drmedia processing has changed the state of the volume on or before the specified date. This field is optional. The default is the current date.

Possible values are:

MM/DD/ YYYY Select volumes that were changed to their current state on or after a specific date, using MM/DD/YYYY format.
TODAY Select volumes that were changed to their current state ending with today.
TODAY -days
 or
-days
Select volumes that were changed to their current state ending with a date determined by today minus a specific number of days. The maximum value for the number of days is 9999. For example, to move volumes beginning with records changed to their current state a week ago, specify TODAY-7 or simply -7.

Begin Time

Enter the beginning time used to select volumes. Volumes are considered eligible if Move Drmedia processing has changed the state of the volume on or after the specified time and date. This field is optional. The default is midnight (00:00:00).

Possible values are:

HH:MM:SS Select volumes that were changed to their current state on or after a specific time on the specified date, using HH:MM:SS format.
NOW Select volumes that were changed to their current state beginning with the current time on the specified begin date.
NOW +hours:minutes
 or
+hours:minutes
Select volumes that were changed to their current state beginning with a time determined by the current time plus a specific number of hours (and, optionally, minutes) on the specified date.
NOW -hours:minutes or 
-hours:minutes
Select volumes that were changed to their current state beginning with a time determined by the current time minus a specific number of hours (and, optionally, minutes) on the specified date.

End Time

Enter the ending time used to select volumes. Volumes are considered eligible if Move Drmedia processing has changed the state of the volume on or before the specified time and date. This field is optional. The default is 23:59:59.

Possible values are:

HH:MM:SS Select volumes that were changed to their current state on or after a specific time on the specified date, using HH:MM:SS format.
NOW Select volumes that were changed to their current state ending with the current time on the specified begin date.
NOW +hours: minutes
 or
+hours:minutes
Select volumes that were changed to their current state ending with a time determined by the current time plus a specific number of hours (and, optionally, minutes) on the specified date.
NOW -hours: minutes
 or
-hours:minutes
Select volumes that were changed to their current state ending with a time determined by the current time minus a specific number of hours (and, optionally, minutes) on the specified date.

Copy Storage Pool

Enter the name of the copy storage pool whose volumes are to be processed. This field is optional. The default is that all volumes in the specified state, except MOUNTABLE, are considered for processing.

Display Database Backup Volumes

Select whether database backup volumes are included for processing. The default is Yes.

Yes Include database backup volumes for processing.
No Do not include database backup volumes for processing.

Display Format

Select how to display the information. The default is Standard.

Standard Display partial information.
Detailed Display complete information.
CMD Create commands. You must enter commands in the Command field.

Location

Enter the location of the volumes to be processed. This field is optional.

Command

Enter the commands to be created. This field is optional.

String

The command string used to process the volume name or volume location or both. Do not include quotation marks in the string.

Variables

Variables that can be replaced by a value during processing. The possible variables are:

&VOL A volume name.
&LOC A volume location.
&VOLDSN A file name to be written into the sequential access media labels.
&NL A new line character. During  processing, the command is split the &NL variable is and does not append a continuation character. If a continuation character is required, you must specify it just before the &NL. If the &NL is not specified and the line length exceeds 240 characters, the command line is split into multiple lines and continuation characters (+) are added as needed.

Command File Name

Enter the full path file name of the file that will contain the commands specified with the Command field. This field is optional.

Append

Select whether to append the new commands to any existing commands in a  file or to overwrite the existing commands. The default is No.

Yes Append the new commands.
No Overwrite any existing commands.