Jeff wrote:
 
>A caveat of using user volumes - when you backup, be sure you store the
>directories on the private volumes.  While a store @[log in to unmask]@;;directory will
>save the system directory and all files, it won't save user volume dirs.
>You must use the onvs=mpexl_system_volume_set,userset1,userset2... option.
 
Thank you Jeff, for pointing out a detail that I bet a
lot of people now running user volumes may have
missed.....  Including us....    ARRGGGHHHH !!
 
Confess I thought  ;DIRECTORY  stored *all* the
directories as the default (still seems to me that
should in fact be the default).  But sure enough,
438 lines down in the 773 lines of online HELP on
STORE, it does indeed say what Jeff said.
 
Since we are now running 10 spindles + 5 Mirrors
outside the <long name>, we would have been in
for a bit of a surprise if we ever had to reach for our
backup tapes to restore our USER and BACKUP
user volume directories................
 
3000-L pays for itself again !!
 
Ken Sletten