Scrolling in the External Backup IDs 

Use

You display the external backup IDs requested by a backup tool which were not transferred because of the limited storage space for replies. This information comprises the availability status, the external backup ID, the backup type, and the creation date/time for each backup.

Prerequisites

You have the DBM operator authorization Backup or DBInfoRead.

You have requested the external backup Ids of a backup tool (Requesting External Backup IDs) and executed the command for reading the external backup IDs. Keyword CONTINUE in the reply shows that you have not yet read the whole file.

Syntax

backup_ext_ids_listnext

Reply

OK<NL>
(END|CONTINUE)<NL>
[<external_backup_id_line><NL>]
[<external_backup_id_line><NL>]
....

Values for the individual fields of the reply

END

All of the requested information has been transferred in full.

CONTINUE

Information on further backups is available. This was not transferred because of the limited storage available for replies. You can call up this information by entering the above command again or release the occupied memory.

<external_backup_id_line>

A line containing information on one of the backups still registered in the backup tool. The individual columns are separated by a |.

 

In the event of errors, see Reply Format.