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- From: LABELLES@ZENO.MSCD.EDU (Stephen LaBelle - MSCD)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: File format change by BACKUP?
- Message-ID: <01GR7ZWOSRLY8WXSGW@ZENO.MSCD.EDU>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 20:09:02 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov12.122046.484@hhcs.gov.au>, sharmp@hhcs.gov.au writes:
-
- > We have just had a situation where the backup command has done a funny on us.
- > The situation was a backup to tape was being done of a number of indexed RMS
- > files. The operator was prompted for another tape, and had to abort due to
- > problems with the tape mount.
- >
- > When the files are recovered from tape, the last file on the tape prior to the
- > operator abort is in sequential format. I was fairly sure that backup
- > restored files in the same format as they were put on tape. Is it possible
- > for the file to be still opened when the operator aborted and for this to
- > result in a different file format? The recovery command used was just
- > backup/log/select=(filenames)
-
- Here is what probally happened. The file in question was continued on the next
- tape reel. When your operator had to abort the restore due to the tape mount
- problem, the file restore was incomplete. For that reason what was restored
- incorrectly became a sequentil file.
-
- This has happened to me before, the file must be 100% completely restored
- before all its attributes are set correctly by RMS.
-
- Steve
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