On Sat, 14 Jun 1997 16:11:19 +0200, Goetz Neumann wrote:
|Dave Gale wrote:
|> If I remember (it's been awhile) the RESTORE;DIRECTORY will set the UDCs.
|
|No, all your UDC settings (setcatalog commands) are saved in the
|file COMMAND.PUB.SYS, and as long as this file is on your backup,
|a simple restore of it brings back your UDCs.

Actually, I believe that both things are needed.  The SETCATALOG command
does two things:

1. It sets a flag in the directory entry for the user or account or the
   system indicating that UDCs are enabled for that entity.  This flag is
   stored and restored by the DIRECTORY keyword (on STORE and RoadRunner).

2. Entries are added or updated as needed in COMMAND.PUB.SYS linking the
   entity to the appropriate UDC files.

Remember also that merging accounting information from one system onto
another system is non-trivial.

|In earlier releases we had very rare cases of internal file
|corruptions in COMMAND.PUB.SYS, so we here in the German RC
|still tend to recommend to have BULDACCT run from your
|fullbackup job, so that the job streams BULDJOB1 and BULDJOB2
|get stored with it, and can be used if the need arises ever.

I agree that this is a useful second line of defense in backing up your
accounting information (which, BTW, may not seem too critical until you've
had to set it all up by hand).  Be aware, however, that the BULDJOB[12]
files have passwords embedded in them.  I suggest they be purged after the
backup.
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