[Info-vax] BACKUP/IMAGE/EXCLUDE...?

[Christoph Gartmann]

In article <14a11c01-2dd8-497b-ac56-2ecc4ebb2995 at r34g2000vba.googlegroups.com>, AEF <spamsink2001 at yahoo.com> writes:

>I think the best strategy is to change the app to write those big
>files onto their own disk. If they're written to a disk (or disk
>+directory-spec) referenced by a logical name that is used only by the
>app, it should be rather easy to do this by simply redefining the
>logical name. If you can't have the app changed and/or redefine a
>logical name, then you'll have to use one of the workarounds suggested
>here.

After all I changed the BACKUP command from /IMAGE to /NOIMAGE and added
an /EXCLUDE. It required a modificaiton to the central backup routine. But
this was easier than fiddling around with "Backup/NoBackup". There is one
little glitch, though: the resulting backup command looks something like
   BACKUP/IMAGE .... sourcedisk:[000000...]*.*;*/NOIMAGE ...
Removing "/IMAGE" for this very disk would have been a lot more complicated.

Regards,
   Christoph Gartmann

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