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Recovering a Tape: Duplex Tape Available

Note: The DR tape is not a mirror image of the primary/duplex tape and cannot be used as a substitute for the duplex tape.

Follow these steps to recover a tape when a duplex tape is available.

  1. Uncatalog the damaged backup tape, but set it aside, in case the duplex tape cannot be located or is damaged.
  2. Use SARTCP with the COPYASIS execution parameter to copy the duplex tape to a new tape with the same data set name as the original backup tape.

    Note: The new tape must be large enough to contain the full contents of the duplex tape. If the new tape is not large enough, a SARTCP11 Output Tape EOV Error, ECB=xx, BLOCK=xxxxxxx, SENSE=xxxx message is displayed.

  3. Catalog the new backup tape.

    You can do this in Example 3, in the JCL.