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> One of my clients (who lurks on this list) has a major problem with their
> backup on an old MPE/V machine.  The backup fails with "OUT FO DISC SPACE".
>  The system disc is horribly fragmented with the largest chunk being around
> 1300 sectors.  Since SL.PUB.SYS is a whole lot bigger than this, I'm
> presuming this is the problem.  Running VINIT CONDENSE three times hasn't
> made a dent in the fragmentation.  Anybody got any suggestions on how to
> clean up the disc and recover from this - apart from doing a "store @[log in to unmask]@"
> and a reload?  The other possibility I have in mind is to change the backup
> to a simple store, but this doesn't solve the long-term problem as it makes
> reconfiguring impossible.

How about: STORE off some accounts (or large files), purge those files -
not the accounts, do your VINIT multiple times.  Then RESTORE the files.
Have they ever done a Reload, or is that too risky for their site?

Dave King
Information Systems
Stanford Alumni Association
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