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

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <mf9vdo$nut$1 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm
<jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes: 

> > 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...

Right.  Backing up a database should be done via a database backup!

(By the way, "learn" should probably be "teach"; the words are very 
similar in Swedish ("lära" is "teach" and "lära sig", literally "teach 
oneself", is "learn".)