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Subject: Re: Questions bru-ing in my mind
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Date: 3 Jan 91 23:37:00 GMT
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Peter,

A minor correction to your posting about VMS Backup:

In a recent posting
(Message-Id: <1990Dec28.170722.18489@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
 Date: 28 Dec 90 17:07:22 GMT,
 Subj:	Re: Questions bru-ing in my mind)
you stated

>When you do such a restore, you get all the files that were there as of
>the time of the last incremental, but you also get files -- a whole lot of
>files, in my experience -- that users had deleted since the 0-level dump
>was made.  

This implies that either you neglected to specify /INCREMENTAL when you
restored the incremental tapes, or that the incremental Backup was done
incorrectly. VMS BACKUP normally records all of the directory
information (but not all of the files), and an incremental restore
will automatically remove the files which were deleted from disk
between the two Backups.

Just a quibble: I don't like seeing misinformation being spread.

Selden E. Ball, Jr.
(Wilson Lab's network and system manager)

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s.