You might try something like this... :setvar myvar hpyear*10000+hpmonth*100+hpdate :showvar myvar MYVAR = 961127 :setvar myvar "F"+ "!myvar" :showvar myvar MYVAR = F961127 Since I know next to nothing about DECservers, I added the second part to start the proposed filename with an alpha "F" which would denote a full backup. "P" would be for partial. Mark Ranft [log in to unmask] Terry Prime <[log in to unmask]> wrote in article <[log in to unmask]>... > Help please. > I am not a programmer and have not worked on HPs for nine years, but my > first job is to make our HP3000/957 MPE/iX a paperless CPU as far as > operations are concerned. > One of the purposes of this is to make our unatended batch backup (using > turbostore) not print out its listing, but to FTP the listing to a DECserver > on the network. This DECserver is used tostore all the backup listings from > all our CPUs. > However I have to call the backup listing by a filename that is obvious and > I thought that if the filename was to contain the date of the backup as well > as some indication to if it was a full or incremental backup this would > solve the problem (especially with the retention of the listing). > This is to be all automatic so i would have to include it in the backup > batch job. > If someone can give me help with using the variable HPDATE so i can > automatically change the backup listing into a file name for ready for FTP I > would appreciate it. As yet I do not know anything about HP variables and > will have to learn fast. > thanks and regards > Terry >