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Continuing a backup or restore after reaching the end of tape

You can continue a backup or restore operation after it has reached the end of current tape and is in the wait state to write output to or accept input from a new tape.

About this task

When an SMTape backup or restore operation reaches the end of tape, and the backup or restore operation requires more than one tape to complete, one of the following messages is displayed on the console:
Change tape for smtape backup with job id <job ID>
Change tape for smtape restore with job id <job ID>
To continue your backup or restore operation, you must change the tape and use the smtape continue command.

Step

  1. To continue your backup or restore operation after changing the tape, enter the following command:
    smtape continue job_id [tape_device]

    job_id is the job ID of the backup or restore operation to be continued.

    tape_device is the tape device to be used to continue with the backup or restore operation. If you do not specify a tape device, the current tape device is used.