X-no-Archive:yes
There you go. Orbit's backup can and will do this, and they will help you
make it so.

Now, what I test-piloted, back when, was some scripting to exclude any files
that we expect to be open, and excluded from the backup. Said scripting
would copy an indirect STORE file, that specified what to store, and
excluded those files whose names were constant and were never backed up, and
append the variably named files for exclusion.

The scripting below would use the permanent file that was the basis for the
temp file, in a group we added named CFG, with a file name that matched the
job name, thus !HPJOBNAME. It would identify those files whose names could
vary, being the spool files for the backup itself and any other running job,
and the log files. My goal was to have no files excluded. The job stream
would then test for the TS_ variables after the STORE.

I assumed that updating anything would probably break this, as new files
were excluded that had not been anticipated. But at least we would know
about it. And, my intention was to, during off hours, and after such an
update, store whatever was updated to $NULL, to see if anything new was
excluded, or for that matter, if previously excluded files were no longer
used.

Here that is.
!#Append open logs & splfiles as filestoexclude to temp indirect file
!PRINT !HPJOBNAME.CFG>!HPJOBNAME
!LISTFILE [log in to unmask],6;SELEQ=[ACCESS=INUSE]>TEMP
!SETVAR FilesToExclude " "
!SETVAR COUNTER 0
!WHILE SETVAR(COUNTER,COUNTER+1)<=FINFO("TEMP","EOF")
!   PRINT TEMP;START=!COUNTER;END=!COUNTER>LINE
!   INPUT SPOOLFILE<LINE
!   SHOWVAR SPOOLFILE
!   SETVAR FilesToExclude FilesToExclude+" -"+RTRIM(SPOOLFILE)
!ENDWHILE
!SHOWVAR FilesToExclude
!SHOWLOG
!LISTFILE LOG####.PUB.SYS,6;SELEQ=[ACCESS=INUSE]>TEMP
!IF CIERROR=OK
!   INPUT LOGFILE<TEMP
!   SETVAR FilesToExclude FilesToExclude+" -"+RTRIM(LOGFILE)
!   SHOWVAR FilesToExclude
!ELSE
!   TELLOP ![CHR(27)]&dJERROR: NO LOG is in use! Notify MidSys!
!   ERRCLEAR
!ENDIF
!LISTFILE NMLG####.PUB.SYS,6;SELEQ=[ACCESS=INUSE]>TEMP
!IF CIERROR=OK
!   INPUT NMLOGFILE<TEMP
!   SETVAR FilesToExclude FilesToExclude+" -"+RTRIM(NMLOGFILE)
!   SHOWVAR FilesToExclude
!ELSE
!   TELLOP ![CHR(27)]&dJWarning: NO NM LOG is in use! Notify MidSys!
!   ERRCLEAR
!ENDIF
!ECHO !FilesToExclude>>!HPJOBNAME

Greg Stigers
http://www.cgiusa.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Klein [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 12:49 PM
To: Stigers, Greg [And]; [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re[2]: [HP3000-L] Have you checked your backup-log ???

Yes, there are JCWs/variables set up the kazoo to indicate various
status. Two of them are FILESSTORED and FILESNOTSTORED.

Even without that, you can check state in your job streams
and if you've installed SENDMAIL, you can have email sent to you
if an unusual condition is detected. You may also be able to use
the ON EVENT DO .. within BACKUP+ to send email.

>I have to imagine that the support folks at Orbit have some good answers to
>this concern.

I would agree! Our support people are very knowledgeable and will
no doubt be able to help.

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