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

[David Froble]

Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> 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.
> 

And if, for perfectly valid reasons, you're using more than one database 
product ????