[comp.os.vms] Backup hics

youngdale%v6550c.DECnet@NRL3.ARPA ("V6550C::YOUNGDALE") (06/10/88)

>Anyone know why BACKUP behaves this way?  I have a command procedure (shown
>below) which stops just after the first BACKUP command...no error or anything,
>it just doesn't execute the following commands.  If it's run batch, the job
>terminates at that point.  This is under 4.7, but it did the same thing under
>4.4.  I've tried various things, but it doesn't even seem terribly consistent.

	I think that the problem is that during the first backup there is
an error of some sort (i.e. file open for write by another user).  In order
to get this to run, you must turn off error checking.
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