[Info-vax] need help with corrupt MAIL.MAI file

[AEF]

On Nov 24, 1:21 pm, koeh... at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob
Koehler) wrote:
> In article <3a20fce1-d36b-4333-9591-7ed893ebd... at p19g2000vbq.googlegroups.com>, AEF <spamsink2... at yahoo.com> writes:
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> > Just as an aside, this reminds me of when I did a standalone backup of
> > a system disk that was a member of a two-member shadow set. I used /
> > RECORD. Then when bringing the system up with both disks, a DIRECTORY
> > command would show the backup date oscillating between two values with
> > each file. So I did a copy operation and all was well. Is there some
> > better way to have done this?
>
>    There are always issues when shadowing the system disk.  I think the
>    method that is known to work is to do the standalone backup on the
>    first volume, then boot the system and let shadowing bring the second
>    volume up to date.  (Which is a lot like what you did.)

As I admittedly opined (or pronounced [!]) before:

It is amazing how involved things get when you try to do something
that at first seems very simple.

AEF