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From: MADDISOJ@carleton.EDU (Joseph Maddison)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: another BACKUP question
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Date: 14 May 88 04:45:00 GMT
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         In doing a backup of files on a disk to another disk, if the
         directory where the files are to be placed doesn't exist,
         then it will be created. This is all well and good. However,
         when doing a tape backup of files on a disk, the directories
         are unnecessary and waste space on the tape if you are
         backing up large numbers of individual directories with files
         in them. The intuitive solution of backup/exclude=(*.dir)
         apparently does not work, presumably because BACKUP is
         convince that it needs a directory to put the files in,
         ignoring the sequential nature of the tape. 

         My question: are the directory files on tape as useless as
         they seem? Is there a way to avoid them, if they are? 

         Joseph Maddison
         Student Programmer/User Consultant 
         Carleton College
         Northfield, MN 55057

         maddisoj@carleton.edu (CSnet)
         ...!uwm-cs!stolaf!agnes!ccnfld!maddisoj (UUCP)

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