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Use

You can use BRTOOLS as a tool:

To display the menus for the BR*Tools user interface using a character-based interface

That is started internally by BRBACKUP, BRARCHIVE, and BRRESTORE

Note

Distinguish between the following:

BR*Tools is the program package containing BRSPACE, BRBACKUP, BRARCHIVE, BRRESTORE, BRRECOVER, BRCONNECT, and BRTOOLS.

BRTOOLS is the program that displays the character-based menus from which the other BR programs are called. It works together with BRGUI to generate a graphical user interface.

Features

BRTOOLS as an internal tool started by BRBACKUP, BRARCHIVE, and BRRESTORE has the following features:

  • Backup verification

  • Saved files are compared with their originals

  • Tape access and compression routines on Windows (tape_copy_cmd = brtools, compress_cmd = brtools)

For more information, see -w|-verify.

The option -c force

This denies the commands that are started (such as cpio) access to the console.

For more information, see -c|-confirm.

Parallel backup to a remote host ( backup_dev_file = pipe).