Re:

> Checking in with the RC they pointed me to their
> MPE Testing White Paper and EMPHASIZED that the entire SYSTEM
> must be reloaded from scratch, not simply shutdown and restarted.
> That'll take down-time that my user-community won't appreciate
> unless it's absolutely essential.  I can't seem to get a straight
> answer from RC as to what their actual experience may have shown

This has been discussed a number of times on HP3000-L this year,
so you might want to do some searching at http://www.optc.com/Webbot/

AFAIK, the essential answer is: if you have future dated files,
you may find that they get included in your partial backups for months
to come.  Our free FIXFDATE (at www.allegro.com/software/#FIXFDATE)
will fix those file dates.

SS


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