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

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <55189429$0$44152$c3e8da3$3a1a2348 at news.astraweb.com>, JF
Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes: 

> > Why duplicate what already is available? Why try to "learn" BACKUP
> > what RMU/BACKUP alredy knows about? Totaly wasted money...
> 
> Because the "backup" command inside a database doesn't backup the rest
> of the system.  So nicer if the OS level BACKUP.EXE is able to backup
> the whole system and get commercial databases "safely" in the process.

In any environment where good backups are essential, it would be very 
ugly to have anything else on disks which have database files on them.