Re: backup of empty directories!

From: Alan E. Feldman (spamsink2001_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 06/07/04 

Date: 6 Jun 2004 22:26:54 -0700

"Syltrem" <syltremzulu@videotron.ca> wrote in message news:<p3Mvc.7205$Xy3.22844@tor-nn1.netcom.ca>...
> Funny
>
> I more than once had a problem in that OpenVMS would not BACKUP empty
> directories to my destination.
> That was when using BACKUP to copy files from one disk to another.
> And this a a BACKUP limitation.
>
> But iirc that was for root directories only.

You probably specified [*...] as the input specifier. Since none of
the "root" directories reside in any of the top directories (from the
* part), BACKUP didn't copy them. But non-empty "root" directories
would be created for you as you have to have "somewhere to put the
files", but I bet the attributes of such directories would not have
been copied.

Specifying [000000...] as the input specifier should do the trick to
copy both empty and non-empty "root" directories.

JMHO

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