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From: helen@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Helen Rapozo)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Backing up the system disk from DCL
Summary: Can be done
Message-ID: <2204@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 6 Aug 88 18:29:02 GMT
References: <8808031554.AA11042@NADC.ARPA>
Reply-To: helen@uhccux.UUCP (Helen Rapozo)
Organization: University of Hawaii
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In article <8808031554.AA11042@NADC.ARPA> abbonizi@NADC.ARPA (M. Abbonizio) writes:
>Hello VMS managers,
>    
>   Does anyone backup their system disk from the DCL command level?  What are
>   the drawbacks?  Do you use /IGNORE = (INTERLOCK or NOBACKUP)?  What effects
>   does this have on PAGEFILE.SYS and SWAPFILE.SYS which are marked "No Backup"
>   when restored?  Any info or hints appreciated.
>

We use /IGNORE=INTERLOCK when we backup the system disk, but never with
NOBACKUP.  When any file is encountered with NOBACKUP it will only
backup the file header information like how big the file is and other
attribubes.  That way when you restore the file it will take up
that much space on the disk.  The contents of the file will be
meaningless but these files only contain temporary information
anyway.

Just to let you know that while we back up our system disk fully
every week, we still do a standalone backup of the system drive
once a month (in place of a weekly).

We run a VAX 8200 and two MicroVAX II.

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