[Info-vax] OpenVMS - file selection abnormally with Copy / Rename or user ignorance?

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

JF Mezei skrev den 2015-03-29 22:07:
> On 15-03-29 08:26, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>
>> Now having a reliable online BACKUP mechanism for RMS files — which
>> would likely involve application integration and/or use of RMS
>> Journaling — would be far more interesting.
>
>
> If indexed files are no longer in vogue, perhaps BACKUP needs to have
> some interface with the "official" database packages so that it could
> safely capture database files.
>
> If you're going to have to duplicate a database to some sequential file
> before Backup can copy the data, why not have BACKUP save the
> intermediate on-disk copy and copy directly from the database (with the
> database system ensuring data consistency as it does when it does its
> own on-line backup.
>

Why duplicate what already is available? Why try to "learn" BACKUP
what RMU/BACKUP alredy knows about? Totaly wasted money...