Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bbn!uwmcsd1!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!hplabs!ucbvax!XEROX.COM!"Mike_F._England.ESCP8" From: "Mike_F._England.ESCP8"@XEROX.COM Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Re: VMS Backup Message-ID: <880628-104754-4030@Xerox> Date: 28 Jun 88 17:41:26 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 54 >the upshot being that anyprocedure without >a $ SET NOON at the beginning will stop when an >image exits with Error or Fatal status I still think that there is a backup hiccup, NOT related to the ON ERROR type of stuff. My backup procedure did not complete last night. The (edited) log file is as follows: ---------- $! AUTOBACK Daily backup command file $ $ SET DEF DUA0:[ORALOAD.SYS] $ $ show status Status on 27-JUN-1988 23:00:02.39 Elapsed CPU : 0 00:00:01.44$ .... (stuff removed) $ backup/log - dua0:[epbu]/exclude=(*.DAT,*.DMP,*.BCK),- dua0:[customer]/exclude=(*.DAT,*.DMP,*.BCK),- dua0:[oraload.sys...]/exclude=(*.DAT,*.DMP,*.BCK) - dua0:[oraload.sys]backup.bck/save/block=2048 %BACKUP-S-COPIED, copied DUA0:[EPBU]1.SQL;7 .... (stuff removed) %BACKUP-S-COPIED, copied DUA0:[ORALOAD.SYS]UVSTARTUP.COM;1 %BACKUP-S-COPIED, copied DUA0:[ORALOAD.SYS]WELCOME.TXT;2 SYSTEM job terminated at 27-JUN-1988 23:43:04.06 Accounting information: Buffered I/O count: 1268 Peak working set size: 512 Direct I/O count: 7384 Peak page file size: 2709 Page faults: 224919 Mounted volumes: 0 Charged CPU time: 0 00:38:13.43 Elapsed time: 0 00:43:04.00 ---------- The only places I have removed lines are denoted by ... . The .COM files has the lines: ---------- .... (stuff removed) $ backup/log - dua0:[epbu]/exclude=(*.DAT,*.DMP,*.BCK),- dua0:[customer]/exclude=(*.DAT,*.DMP,*.BCK),- dua0:[oraload.sys...]/exclude=(*.DAT,*.DMP,*.BCK) - dua0:[oraload.sys]backup.bck/save/block=2048 $ $ RENAME DUA0:[ORALOAD.SYS]backup.bck 'DAY'.BCK $ .... (more commands) ---------- As you can see, DCL ignored the lines following the backup command (starting with rename). There were NO error messages of any kind. //michael (213) 333-6014