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complete any steps described in this chapter that you need to perform and, when you are finished, re-form the shadow set.

If your newly installed or upgraded system disk will not be in a shadow set, back up the system disk by performing the following steps. (For a newly installed system disk, it might be just as easy to reinstall the operating system.)

1.Shut down the system (as described in Section A.7.2 (page 185)).

2.Boot the operating system media, as described in Section 3.2 (page 49).

3.Use the OpenVMS operating system menu to enter the DCL environment (option 8).

4.Mount the system device and the target device on which you are making the backup copy. (If you are backing up to tape, skip to the next step.) For example, if your system disk is on DKA0: and the target device is on DKA100:, you might use the following commands (colons are required). The /OVERRIDE qualifier used in this example enables you to mount the system disk without entering its volume label. The /FOREIGN qualifier is required for the target disk when you use the BACKUP /IMAGE command.

$$$ MOUNT /OVERRIDE=IDENTIFICATION DKA0:

$$$ MOUNT /FOREIGN DKA100:

$$$ BACKUP /IMAGE /LOG DKA0: DKA100:

5.To back up the system disk to a magnetic tape, enter the following commands, where MTA0: is the magnetic tape drive and label is the volume label. Note that the BACKUP command automatically mounts the tape and begins the backup to it.

$$$ INITIALIZE MTA0: label

$$$ MOUNT /OVERRIDE=IDENTIFICATION DKA0:

$$$ BACKUP /IMAGE /LOG DKA0: MTA0:label.BCK

The /IMAGE qualifier causes the Backup utility to produce a functionally equivalent copy of the system disk, which is also bootable. The /LOG qualifier causes the procedure to display the specification of each save set file being processed. To compare the backed up files to the source files, use the /VERIFY qualifier. If any discrepancies are detected, the Backup utility displays an error message.

6.Log out from the DCL environment.

7.Shut down the system by selecting option 9 on the menu.

8.Boot from the disk on which you either upgraded or installed OpenVMS.

In addition to backing up the system disk now before you customize it, you should back up your system disk again after you successfully complete your customization tasks and install layered products.

For more complete information about backup operations, including a description of an alternative method that does not require booting from the operating system media and that enables you to back up a shadowed disk without disabling the shadow set, see Appendix E (page 247). For more information about the Backup utility, see the HP OpenVMS System Management Utilities Reference Manual: A-L.

7.3 Registering Your Licenses

If you did not register your OpenVMS licenses during the installation, you must do so before you can use the OpenVMS operating system. You must also register the licenses for OpenVMS layered products. If your operating system came preinstalled, you must register licenses. The licenses are not preinstalled. If you plan to form a volume shadow set for your newly installed system disk, you must enter and load the VOLSHAD license.

If you have upgraded your operating system, register any new OpenVMS or layered product licenses. For OpenVMS I64 systems, a single OE license grants the right to use all the components bundled in the purchased OE. Each OE is offered with Per Core Licenses (PCLs).

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