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- From: kjb@calmasd.prime.com (Ken Brucker)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: Fixing SYSTEM-W-HEADERFULL error
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.153235.958@calmasd.prime.com>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 23:32:34 GMT
- Article-I.D.: calmasd.1992Nov16.153235.958
- References: <BxoMzw.Jx9@irvine.com> <1992Nov16.122136.26119@fripp.ri.cadre.com>
- Organization: Computervision, San Diego CA
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- In article <1992Nov16.122136.26119@fripp.ri.cadre.com>, rj@cadre.com (Rob deFriesse) writes:
- > adam@irvine.com (Adam Beneschan) writes:
- >
- > : We think the problem is that the system is trying to enlarge the
- > : INDEXF.SYS file and can't.
- >
- > That's it exacly. Here's what you do:
- >
- > 1. Back up the disk to tape or another disk.
- >
- > 2. Determine the maximum number of files you will ever need on the disk.
- >
- > 3. Inititalize the disk with _BOTH_ /maximum_files= _AND_ /headers= set to
- > the figure determined in step two. If you don't use /headers=, it won't
- > work.
- >
- > 4. Restore the contents of the disk. Use /noinitialize if you're doing an
- > image restore.
-
- Be careful on this last step. There's a bug that I know existed back in VMS
- 5.4 and may still be present in Backup. Essentially, it ignores the /noinit
- when doing an image restore and re-creates the indexf.sys to be just large
- enough to hold the files that are in the save set.
-
- I mentioned this to one of the Backup developers at a DECUS a couple of years
- ago and I think the patched version of Backup that is available via DSNlink
- contains the fix, but I don't think VMS 5.5-1 does. Although I haven't had
- reason to test this lately so I don't know if this is still a real problem with
- the current VMS release.
-
- To get around the bug, do steps 1 to 3 and then do a selective restore to the
- entire disk.
-
- Ken
-
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