[comp.os.vms] V4.6 Backup

MADISON@CICGJ.RPI.EDU (Matt Madison) (12/15/87)

>Overheard at DECUS Anaheim: that 4.6 BACKUP requires that the *user*
>have PHY_IO privilege, otherwise it won't work. Is this in fact true?
>If true, can it be worked around by INSTALLing BACKUP with PHY_IO?

This problem is a FLASH item on DSIN.  If I remember right, it only affects
systems with TU81's and/or TK50's.  Since we have both, I know it does affect
those.  I have found that installing BACKUP with PHY_IO privilege works;
however you also must install SYS$SHARE:ENCRYPSHR, since BACKUP evidently
uses routines from there.  I use the following:

  $ install := $install/command
  $ install
  create backup/priv=phy_io
  create sys$share:encrypshr
  exit
  $

The Flash for this problem on DSIN claims that this can't be done because
ENCRYPSHR is linked /TRACEBACK.  However, I have had no problem with it.

Matt Madison
Systems Programmer
Center for Interactive Computer Graphics
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
madison@cicgj.rpi.edu