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- From: sharmp@hhcs.gov.au
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: File format change by BACKUP?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.122046.484@hhcs.gov.au>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 12:20:46 +1100
- Organization: Aust. Dept. Health, Housing and Community Services
- Lines: 19
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- 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)
-
- By the way, we are running VMS 5.5-1. We have a meeting tomorrow (22 hours
- time) about the problems we had, so any info/suggestions you have would be
- really appreciated.
-
- Thanks
-
- Peter Sharman @sharmp.hhcs.gov.au
-