Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!uwmcsd1!ig!agate!ucbvax!MCCALL.CLAREMONT.EDU!TP From: TP@MCCALL.CLAREMONT.EDU (Terry Poot) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: RE: Automating STANDALONE backup Message-ID: <8807032044.AA09628@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 29 Jun 88 21:44:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 20 I doubt you can do it from a command file, since you don't have VMS, much less DCL. What you can do, if you have a console terminal that supports user-defined keys (i.e. a VT220 type terminal), is give your operators a command procedure that figures out what command(s) need to be executed, load them into the keys, and then shut down your system. The operator then just hits the keys in sequence as each operation finishes (i.e. the first has B/E0000000, the second has the backup command, the third has B dua0, etc.). It isn't automated, but it is a lot closer. I'd enclose code, but I haven't had time to write it to my satisfaction (I use a more primitive application of the same techinque that does, however, require the operators to fill in parts of the backup command). If anyone has a better kludge, I'd like to know it. Disclaimer: I am on a microvax. If the machines with console media support command files, I probably wouldn't know about it. ______________________________________ Terry Poot (800)255-2762, (913)776-3683 The McCall Pattern Company, 615 McCall Rd., Manhattan, KS 66502 BITNET: tp@mccall.claremont.edu INTERNET: tp%mccall.claremont.edu@cunyvm.cuny.edu UUCP: {any smart host}!psuvax1!mccall.claremont.edu!tp (I think)