Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!sri-spam!mordor!lll-tis!ptsfa!dual!ucbvax!RED.RUTGERS.EDU!AWalker From: AWalker@RED.RUTGERS.EDU (*Hobbit*) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: BACKUP syntax Q Message-ID: <12312167060.37.AWALKER@RED.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Sun, 21-Jun-87 00:33:38 EDT Article-I.D.: RED.12312167060.37.AWALKER Posted: Sun Jun 21 00:33:38 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 22-Jun-87 06:39:13 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 37 Normally I have no trouble at all with BACKUP, so this feels sort of weird. I have a 785 with three RA81's, one of which is the repository for files scooped up by an automatic backup process. Hitherto the process was simple: I was only using one drive for everything [call it 0] while the extra drive [call it 2] contained mostly static stuff that wouldn't change since I last rolled it off to tape. Thus the backup drive [call it 1] contained a mostly identical structure to 0, except for older files that weren't found by the backup/since=... command. This has changed, and now 0 and 2 have changeable data on them. Thus I need to incorporate 2 into the automatic backup picture. However, BACKUP is being really stupid about allowing me to do this the way I want: backup/since= dua0:<*...> dua1: backup/since= dua2:<*...> dua1: In effect, I want to have two treeheads on the backup drive, and , which have under them the directory structures of each disk. Now, Backup doesn't understand "". If I specify something like dua0:<000000...> ---> dua1: I get *subdirectories* from dua0:<*...> splattered all over dua1: for some reason [this feels like a bug!] and it still doesn't do the right thing. For the moment I've reverted to doing dua0:<*...> ---> dua2:d0.bck/save but this is much less than optimal since it re-creates the entire directory structure of 0 in the saveset whether it had anything to save or not -- creating a 300 block or so useless file. I tried a concealed logical like back2 = dua1: but Backup had a lot of trouble with this -- something about logical name translation count [I forget]. How does one convince Backup to place files correctly in funny places??? _H* -------