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HP Services Software Patches - alpback01_061
 
Copyright (c) Digital Equipment Corporation 1995.  All rights reserved.

OP/SYS:      OpenVMS Alpha

COMPONENT:   BACKUP Utility

SOURCE:      Digital Equipment Corporation

ECO INFORMATION:

     ECO Kit Name:  ALPBACK01_061
     ECO Kits Superseded by This ECO Kit:  None
     ECO Kit Approximate Size:  1134 Blocks
     Kit Applies To:  OpenVMS Alpha V6.1
     System Reboot Necessary:  No


ECO KIT SUMMARY:

An ECO kit exists for BACKUP on OpenVMS Alpha V6.1.  This kit addresses
the following problems: 
 
Problems addressed in the ALPBACK01_061 kit:

  o  BACKUP may not incrementally restore a disk to the same
     directory and file structure that existed at the time of 
     the most recent incremental save operation.  Some of the 
     directories and their files may not be deleted properly,
     which results additional files.  This may cause restore 
     errors due to insufficient space on the output disk
     device because the additional files are not deleted.

     This problem is corrected in OpenVMS Alpha V6.2.

  o  When a BACKUP/LIST DDCU:*.*/SAVE_SET operation is performed
     on a tape that contains many save sets, the BACKUP utility may
     eventually abort with one of the following errors:

     -  %BACKUP-F-ALLOCMEM, error allocating virtual memory
         SYSTEM-F-EXQUOTA, exceeded quota

     -  %BACKUP-F-INSBUFSPACE, Insufficient virtual memory to 
         accommodate minimum buffer count

     -  %BACKUP-F-BUFFERSLOST, all buffers are lost

     This problem is corrected in OpenVMS Alpha V6.2.

  o  A listing file produced during an image backup and a listing
     file created from the saveset may not be the same.  One may
     show several files to be at the end of a tape and the other
     may show those same files to be at the beginning of the next
     tape.  In reality, the files only exist only at the beginning
     of the next tape.
     
     This problem is corrected in OpenVMS Alpha V6.2.

  o  If an existing file name version for a disk saveset is used
     for a new disk saveset, BACKUP will overwrite the file.  This
     causes the destruction of the information in the file and
     possibly the loss of data.

     This problem is corrected in OpenVMS Alpha V6.2.


  o  If the /RECORD qualifier is used on a RESTORE operation, an
     ACCVIO may occur due to improper checking of qualifiers.  

     This problem is corrected in OpenVMS Alpha V6.2.

  o  On a BACKUP file restore operation, a file gets an ACL with
     the default ACE created even though there was not one before.
     The [DIRECTORY] that the file was in had a default ACE.  An 
     ACE with the DEFAULT option on a directory file causes this 
     ACE to be added to the restored file's ACL.

     NOTE:  This problem does not occur on BACKUP/image
            save/restore operations.

     This problem is corrected in OpenVMS Alpha V6.2.

  o  Behavior of OpenVMS V6.1 and OpenVMS V6.0 is different with an
     input saveset that has errors.  Essentially V6.1 prompts the
     user for action where V6.0 did not.  A problem introduced by
     the change in behavior is that besides prompting for (QUIT OR
     CONTINUE) on every count of 100, it also prompts on the first
     error detected before any XOR recovery could be attempted on 
     the failing block.  

     This problem is corrected in OpenVMS Alpha V6.2.

  o  BACKUP will erroneously abort with a GENMINUS1 error on a
     non-shadowed disk.

     This problem is corrected in OpenVMS Alpha V6.2.

  o  If the /INCREMENTAL and the /SINCE qualifier are used on the
     same BACKUP command line, unpredictable results occur.

     This problem is corrected in OpenVMS Alpha V6.2.

  o  A power fail test on two tape storage devices, TA90E and TA78,
     ended  up  with two different results.  The TA78 recovered the
     power fail test but the TA90E failed with:

          %BACKUP-E-FATALERR, fatal error on $88$MUA3:[]TEST.BCK;
           BACKUP/IMAGE/REW/VER/IGN=INTER SYS$SYSDEVICE: 
           $88$MUA3:TEST.BCK/SAVE

          Power fail the tape storage unit during I/O.

     This problem is corrected in OpenVMS Alpha V6.2.

  o  BACKUP does not continue on the tape that is mounted while
     using the /EXACT_ORDER  qualifier.  

     When the first BACKUP command completes on the tape_volume 
     label "W0" and that volume is only about half full, the second 
     command requests a tape with label "W0".  BACKUP complains and
     will not allow that label "W0" to be used.  However, if the
     tape is dismounted and BACKUP remounts the same tape_volume to
     do the append operation or the the /EXACT_ORDER qualifier is
     removed from the command line, the tape_volume is mounted
     correctly.

     This is illustrated by the following command file:

          $ write sys$output " backup av ingtab1 "
          $ backup/journal/fast -
              /exclude=(pppp*.t*,*.m*,*.d*,*.sm*) -
              ingtab1:[ingres.data.tds01]*.* -
              tape:ingtab1.bck -
              /norew -
              /block=65024 -
              /label=(N0,V0,W0,N1,V1,W1) -
              /exact_order
          $!
          $ write sys$output " backup av ingtab2 "
          $ backup/journal/fast -
              /exclude=(pppp*.t*,*.m*,*.d*,*.sm*) -
              ingtab2:[ingres.data.tds01]*.* -
              tape:ingtab2.bck -
              /norew -
              /block=65024 -
              /label=(W0,N1,V1,W1) -
              /exact_order
          $!
          $ exit

     This problem is corrected in OpenVMS Alpha V6.2.

  o  A RESTORE operation completes successfully, but returns the 
     INVRECTYP message that may cause doubt about the integrity of
     the data.  

     This problem is corrected in OpenVMS Alpha V6.2.

  o  If a tape volume switch is required during a BACKUP operation
     and the Media Manager (MME) is running, the BACKUP operation 
     will fail with:

          "BACKUP-F-NOTANSI - tape is not valid ANSI format".

     This problem is corrected in OpenVMS Alpha V6.2.

  o  OpenVMS BACKUP cannot selectively process directory structures
     exceeding 8 levels.  Only the BACKUP/IMAGE save and restore
     will work.

     This problem is corrected in OpenVMS Alpha V6.2.


INSTALLATION NOTES:

The system/cluster does not need to be rebooted after this kit is
installed. 

DCLTABLES is modified with this kit to include the new BACKUP
qualifiers.  To take advantage of the new syntax, without having 
to logout/login, a process' copy of DCLTABLES can be updated by typing:

     $ SET COMMAND/TABLE=SYS$LIBRARY:DCLTABLES
Files on this server are as follows:
»alpback01_061.README
»alpback01_061.CHKSUM
»alpback01_061.CVRLET_TXT
»alpback01_061.a-dcx_axpexe
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