Hi David,

The problem with the CREATE option is that you will loose: Your security
(group,account etc),
Your UDCs, Your user setup.......

You could use BULDACCT, but your system is already gone (by the sound of
your question).

The CREATE function will build those groups and accounts and create the
users, but with DEFAULT capabilities.


If you have a really old tape with the directory on it (Maybe a year end or
something) you could restore a single file (I don't know if this works if
the file isn't found) with the directory option. This would at least give
you a starting point. Of course any changes since the tape was cut will be
lost.


Personally, I would let whoever the mental giant who did this rebuild the
information.

Hope things get better.

Dave Gale

-----Original Message-----
From: David Randall [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 12:38 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Engineer/ restore woes


Can someone out there advise - recovering from a failed disk we are mid
reload and discovered that some bright spark has changed our full dump not
to include the ;directory; option.

The engineers answer - taken up by my ops - just stick a ;create; on the end
of the restore.

Am I wrong or will this restore everything without passwords etc.

If I'm right can I somehow resurrect the directory from a previous store and
then restore the files???

RSVP ASAP please.

David Randall, IT  Manager, Healthcall Services Limited
401 South Row, Milton Keynes, Bucks MK9 2PH, UK
Phone :+(44) 1908 691919 Fax : +(44) 1908 690169
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