SBAILEY@DOMINOES.UUCP.UUCP (02/17/87)
>> $ mount/foreign msa0: totd1 >> $ backup/record/image/log dua0: msa0:totd1 >> (lots of file names) >> %BACKUP-F-CONTINUED, MSA0:[]TOTD1.; CONTAINS A CONTINUED FILE - CANNOT APPEND >I quote from the System Messages and Recovery Procedures reference: > > In a save operation with the /NOREWIND qualifier, the specified > volume contained a multivolume file that was continued on another > volume, and therefore a file cannot be appended to the volume. > >Try using the /REWIND qualifier on the BACKUP command line (or using another >volume). I submitted a SPR on this problem to DEC some months ago, and they had exactly the same reply. I don't think it was the correct reply... In my environment, the circumstances were typically: $ mount/foreign $1$mua0: $ backup/since=backup user1:[*...] $1$mua0:user1.bkp/rewind $ backup/since=backup user2:[*...] $1$mua0:user2.bkp/norewind ... $ backup/since=backup usern:[*...] $1$mua0:usern.bkp/norewind %BACKUP-F-CONTINUED, ... As I understand it, this means that the after the first BACKUP command, the tape is always positioned at the end of the last file (and before the end of the tape) and therefore this error should not occur ... at least not for the reasons stated above. Anybody have any other suggestions? Scott Bailey SBAILEY@ESGSDWCO.XEROX.COM VAX Systems Manager Xerox: sbailey:ES GSD/WCO:Xerox Xerox Corp. RE/GSD/WCO (good luck if you try a REPLY...) El Segundo, CA Phone: (213) 333-5441