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BACKUP DEVCONFIG (Create Backup Copies of Device Configuration Information)

Use this command to back up the following information in one or more files:

To restore the TSM database, device configuration information must be available.

You can use the DEVCONFIG server option to specify one or more files in which to store device configuration information. TSM updates the files whenever a device class, library, or drive is defined, updated, or deleted.

In order to ensure updates are complete before the server is halted, we recommend you:

Privilege Class

To issue this command, you must have system privilege or unrestricted storage privilege.

Syntax

>>-BAckup DEVCONFig--+-----------------------------+-----------><
                     |            .-,------------. |
                     |            V              | |
                     '-Filenames=-----filename---+-'
 
 

Parameters

Filenames
Specifies the files in which to store device configuration information. You can specify multiple files by separating the names with commas and no intervening spaces. This parameter is optional.

If you do not specify a file name, TSM stores the information in all files specified with the DEVCONFIG option in the server options file.

Examples

Task

Back up device configuration information to a file named DEVICE.

Command:
backup devconfig filenames=device

Related Commands

Table 18. Commands Related to BACKUP DEFCONFIG

Command Description
DEFINE DEVCLASS Defines a device class.
DEFINE DRIVE Assigns a drive to a library.
DEFINE LIBRARY Defines an automated or manual library.
UPDATE DEVCLASS Changes the attributes of a device class.
UPDATE DRIVE Changes the attributes of a drive.
UPDATE LIBRARY Changes the attributes of a library.


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