Thanks for sharing that information. My partial backups were not working either. They will now thanks to the info you shared. Eva -----Original Message----- From: Stan Sieler [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2000 2:29 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Y2K and STORE problem Hi, I just helped diagnose a problem where a site's partial backups weren't running since the start of the year. Turns out they were essentially doing: STORE / ; ; date>=1/2/0 where the date was composed from: !HPMONTH/!HPDATE/!HPYEAR Unfortunately, STORE requires at least *TWO* digits for the year. Yes, you can argue that the STORE syntax says: DATE>=mm/dd/[yy]yy but...it allows m instead of mm, and d instead of dd ... so ... I classify it as a STORE bug. Here's what you get: :STORE / ; ; DATE >= 1/2/0 YEAR PORTION OF DATE IS INVALID. IT MUST BE GREATER THAN 1970 (70) AND LESS THAN 2027 (27). DATE SYNTAX 'mm/dd/yy[yy]' (S/R 597) If you change it to: :STORE / ; ; DATE >= 1/2/00 it works. So...check your backup scripts/jobs...I saw several postings on HP3000-L over the last few years where the date is composed using HPYEAR! (Remember, HPYEAR is an integer variable...so it can't "return 00".) SS Stan Sieler [log in to unmask] www.allegro.com/sieler/wanted/index.html www.allegro.com/sieler