[Info-vax] how to ignore (some?) errors during backup ?

[Michael Moroney]

koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:

>   Is BACKUP stopping, or is a script exiting?  I have not done a lot of
>   backups on my 8.3 system, but I've never had BACKUP stop for such
>   issues.

>   The default action for DCL upon seeing an -E- is to abort the script
>   after the current command.  You may need SET NOON or SET ON ERROR
>   to deal with BACKUP returning -E-.

IIRC, BACKUP returns the highest error encountered during the backup, but
the error(s) do not terminate BACKUP itself (other than -F- errors).
By default, a DCL script will terminate on a -E- level error.  You do
need to have error handling in the DCL to deal with something like this.

<insert usual caveat about /IGNORE=INTERLOCK potentially being hazardous
to your data>