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From: LEICHTER@VENUS.YCC.YALE.EDU ("Jerry Leichter ", LEICHTER-JERRY@CS.YALE.EDU)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: BACKUP woes
Message-ID: <8807052207.AA15074@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 4 Jul 88 04:05:00 GMT
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[The author has been having his batch BACKUP job terminating for no apparent
reason.  Doing a SET NOON didn't solve the problem; he still gets a log file
that looks like:

	.... (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
]

Very strange.  Try checking the accounting record for the process; it will
show the final exit status, which might give you a clue.  Also, check the
system error logs; look for bugcheck records.  (If a file was screwed up,
you might get an RMS bugcheck whenever BACKUP touched it.  RMS bugchecks
are usually non-fatal, but will delete the current process.  They don't
quite fit the pattern you see - LOGINOUT wouldn't run, so you wouldn't
normally see the accounting information at the end.)

Other things to look at:  Compare the log files for a couple of runs.  Does
the process always die after logging the copying of one particular file?  Or
perhaps just BEFORE starting on a particular file or directory?

							-- Jerry