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2. Determine which tape or disk has the data that you want. The best way to do this is to
maintain a book of printed logs. Because IRIS media can contain a wide variety of
products, a simple label is not usually sufficient to describe what is on the medium.
3. Load the medium into the drive and set the drive on line.
Set the write protection on to avoid accidentally writing to the tape by yourself or
another operator.
4. Enter the Archive menu and choose Commands > Mount .
Check the information in the log to make sure it is consistent with what you thought
was on the medium.
5. To tag files for retrieving, select the files that you want to tag by doing one of the
following:
• Left-click the mouse over an entry in the log to select it, or press CTRL +click to
select more than one entry.
• Click and drag the mouse to select a group of entries in the log, or press CTRL , then
click and drag the mouse to select multiple groups of entries.
• Use the Filter menu to produce a list of the files that you want to retrieve.
6. Select Retrieve from one of the following menus:
• If you selected the entries with the mouse, position the mouse cursor over the tape
log and right-click the mouse.
• If you selected the entries from the Filter menu, select Commands .
If you change your mind, untag the file by selecting Cancel .
When a product is selected for Retrieve , an r appears next to its file number.
After a file is successfully retrieved, or if it is on disk already, a
d
is displayed next to the
corresponding file number.
Files that are already on disk cannot be tagged for Retrieve .
7. Select Commands > Retrieve .
IRIS positions the tape and copies the tagged files to the disk. A d appears next to a file
after it is copied to disk.
You can continue to tag or untag files even while
Retrieve is operating.
You may also leave the Archive menu, and the Retrieve process continues its job.
For example, you can go to the Product Output menu and request output from some of
the products that you have restored to disk.
8.8 Stopping an Archive Operation
Use Commands > Stop to stop the current archive operation.
Chapter 8 – Performing Archive Operations
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