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Subject: Backup/do_the_right_thing
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Date: Mon, 10-Jun-85 19:00:25 EDT
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From: *Hobbit* <AWalker@RUTGERS.ARPA>

I've always used plain ole BACKUP/... without /image.  This does things
alphabetically and although might be a little slower, is much more useful
if you have since rebuilt your system disk and need an old file.  /image
will get confused if your disk is now different, and /select, as you
found, loses.  

DEC always uses /image in their tape distributions for things like VMS,
because they assume that the installers will be writing it to a virgin
structure.  The first thing you should do, of course, is write a new tape
of that distribution your own way so you can recover pieces of anything you
lose less painfully.  Beware of FE's creating disk-based standalone backup
kits, also.  Then tend to run these evil procedures in sys$update that 
make liberal use of SET FILE/ENTER, which can really screw you.

_H*
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