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END Command

Use the END command to end CA VM:Backup operation, either after all active commands are complete or immediately using the FORCE option.

After you enter the END command, users cannot invoke CA VM:Backup. If CA VM:Backup issues a message (for example, to request a tape mount) while completing a currently running job, you can respond to the request, but you cannot enter new commands.

When CA VM:Backup ends, you cannot submit new jobs until the system is restarted. To see a list of active and pending jobs before ending CA VM:Backup, use the QUERY REQUESTS command.

END [(FORCE]

Definitions

FORCE

Terminates CA VM:Backup without waiting for active processing to complete. All currently running jobs and commands stop executing immediately. The following table indicates how CA VM:Backup handles jobs interrupted by the END (FORCE command when you restart CA VM:Backup.

Type of job

Job restarts from:

AUTOCAT job

Last completed catalog

Backup, restore, MPC, or REINIT job, restart recovery not enabled

Beginning

Backup job, restart recovery enabled

Last completed domain on last completed tape for each tape stream

Restore job, restart recovery enabled

Last completed domain; restarts restores of incompletely restored domains from beginning of domain

MPC job, restart recovery enabled

Last domain from input tape that was successfully copied to output tapes

REINIT job, restart recovery enabled

Last reinitialized tape

Examples

To immediately end CA VM:Backup processing without waiting for all active commands and currently processing backup and restore jobs to complete, enter:

vmbackup end (force