Re: recursive copy in VMS

koehler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Bob Koehler) writes:

You are aware that you will get those files restored but with a big
load of zero as content? So they will LOOK ok, but be useless for
anything except getting you to delete the other copy.

This is NOT a good idea!

I think that's exactly what he wants. He's satisfied that he
won't lose his Mac's disk and his VMS system's disk at the same
time, just like I'm satisfied that I won't lose my VMS systems'
disks and their tape backups at the same time.

MAny years ago, two of us installed 4.0 onto a pair of 750s. The unit
manager was insistant that we not back it up first as it was
unnessisary. And at 5pm he vanished, and the tape accedentally left
in the drive started spinning. As did several more, and all vanished
into the bottom of a draw.

Next day, ASTRIX and OBLIX where happily humming along. He loged into
one, look through his stuff, log out, logged into the other one and
!eh! there is a second copy of all my files, I'll tidy them up and
delete them. And he did.

"Backup? You said not to do one."

We had to pull the plug on it anyway, due to the 4.0 stale data
problem, and waited a few days before `someone' discovered an old
tape.

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