[Info-vax] Need help mounting shadow set

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In article <0045a0bc$0$26748$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
>Tom Adams wrote:
>
>> We have been using /IGNORE=NOBACKUP  on all images (not on
>> incrementals) so long that I don't know why we do it or if we have a
>> good reason.  Probably started before 1986 when I came to work here.
>
>Using /IGNORE=NOBACKUP ensures you make a full backup of all files. Yes,
>you waste time doing page/swap files, but you also copy files that some
>users may have marked as "nobackup".
>
>Most users think of /NOBACKUP on a file as a signal there is no need to
>back it up every night. It is not a signal that they are willing to see
>the file disapear from their directory without warning when the system
>manager needs to replace physical drives or otherwise reorganise the
>data on the disks.

Users should not be allowed access to DCL unless they are knowledgeable
and are willing to accept the consequences of being permitted access to
it.

That said, you can always limit which DCL commands and qualifiers you'd
allow users to access.  
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