Why is BACKUP not working as expected?
First, please take the time to review the BACKUP documentation, and particularly the BACKUP command examples. Then please download and install the most current BACKUP eco kit. Finally, please please set the process quotas per the System Management documentation. These steps tend to resolve most problems seen. BACKUP has a very complex interface, and there are numerous command examples and extensive user documentation available. For a simpler user interface for BACKUP, please see the documentation for the BACKUP$MANAGER tool. As for recent BACKUP changes, oddities, bugs, etc: o A change made in OpenVMS V6.2 WILL cause more files to be included into a file-based BACKUP saveset using /SINCE=BACKUP as all files underneath any directory with a sufficiently recent (selected) date will be included in the saveset. This change was deliberate and intentional, and was mandated by the need to provide a functional incremental restoration. Without the inclusion of these apparently-extra files, an in
