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CHARON-AXP provides the following set of utilities:

Used to create CHARON tape images from physical tapes and to write tape images back to physical tapes
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mkdskcmd

Used to create CHARON virtual disk containers of custom or standard types.

This utility also may be used to transfer virtual disks of one type to virtual disks of another type.

mtdUsed to create CHARON tape images from physical tapes and to write tape images back to physical tapes.
hasp_srm_view

Used to display the CHARON license contents, to collect the host system fingerprint and to transfer software licenses from one host to another.

hasp_update

Sentinel standard utility used to retrieve Sentinel protection key information, detach a license from a Sentinel SL key and rehost a license from a Sentinel SL key

ncu

Used to dedicate a host interface to CHARON-AXP, to release it back to the host and to manage CHARON virtual interfaces (TAPs).

mtd

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CHARON Guest Utilities for OpenVMSUsed to manage virtual tapes and CHARON performance.

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Details of CHARON-AXP Utilities

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The "mtd" utility is used to:

  • Create a CHARON tape image from a physical tape
  • Write a tape image to a physical tape.

Usage is the following:

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Parameters:

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MTD - CHARON Magnetic Tape Dump & Restore utility, Version 2.3 (Build 18302)
Copyright (C) 2009-2016 STROMASYS SA. All rights reserved.

Usage: mtd [options] <tape-drive-name> <file-name> - dump tape content to file
mtd <file-name> <tape-drive-name> - restore dump to tape
mtd <file-name> <file-name> - convert formats
mtd <file-name> - examine tape dump and check integrity

<tape-drive-name> - tape drive
<file-name> - name of tape container file (.mtd or .vtape)

Options:
-l <file-name> - log file name (.log)

-n - do not rewind tape
-r <number> - number of attempts to retry failing tape reads
-i - ignore failing tape reads (implies -r 0)
-p - disable progress reporting
-v - enable verbose trace of data transfer (implies -p)
-s - output tape image in SMA format
-g - gather statistics and print upon completion

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Use the following syntax to write the content of a tape container to a physical tape:

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Example:

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'hasp_srm_view' utility

The "hasp_srm_view" utility displays content of CHARON-AXP licenses.

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