At 07:48 AM 11/12/99 -0500, Thomas Madigan wrote:

....snip
>When rolling the date back to reality, HP advises that you shut the system
>down, and either do an INSTALL or an UPDATE from your SLT followed by a
>:RESTORE / (without the ;KEEP option).  Apparently, some of the post-Y2K
>dates are written in places that you & I don't understand and that a full
>:RESTORE *should* (fingers crossed) correct the "time warp" factor.
>

If you choose to RESTORE with the KEEP option, you could run into some
difficulties - unless you are careful.

If you're going to do that, you run the very real risk that one or several
files that should reside on ldev 1 will stray away from ldev1.

This could cause you some serious grief the next time you boot your system
- which could be some time later.

So, if you are going to choose this alternative, upon completeion of
restore, I would immediately create an SLT tape, then perform an UPDATE
CONFIG from it. This will place your ldev1-required files on ldev 1. Of
course, you will the need enough contiguous disk space on ldev 1 to perform
a successfull UPDATE CONFIG. Failure of the attempt will require another
reload.

If you really feel a reload is required, I would suggest an INSTALL,
followed by a RESTORE WITH the KEEP option.
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