Re: SQR 4.3 Installation Question for VMS

[Nicholas Pegg <Nicholas.Pegg@GVRD.BC.CA>]

Nick,

The VMS backup command will build a structure on disk the same as the
save set if you do not override the structure from the command line. The
[.] is saying ROOT! Try changing the [.] to a [*] as in:

     BACKUP cd_device:SQR.BCK/SAVE [*]*.*/REPLACE/LOG    or
     BACKUP cd_device:SQR.BCK/SAVE [*...]*.*/REPLACE/LOG

or just specify the target device and leave the DIR bits blank as in:

     BACKUP cd_device:SQR.BCK/SAVE dua0:*.*/REPLACE/LOG

or explictly specify the target as in

     BACKUP cd_device:SQR.BCK/SAVE dua0:[000000]*.*/REPLACE/LOG

Hope that helps!


n


Nicholas Pegg
Business Information Technology
nicholas_pegg@bit.com

>----------
>From:  Nick Moscaritolo[SMTP:nmoscaritolo@LNMTA.BENTLEY.EDU]
>Sent:  July 28, 1998 3:01 PM
>To:    Multiple recipients of list SQR-USERS
>Subject:       SQR 4.3 Installation Question for VMS
>
>Hello all,
>
>We are trying to install SQR 4.3 on our DEC ALPHA box   running VMS 7.1 and
>ORACLE 7.3.
>
>The installation instructions ask us to issue the BACKUP command to copy
>files from the CD to directories which the process should create. The
>BACKUP command is as follows:
>
>     BACKUP cd_device:SQR.BCK/SAVE [.]*.*/REPLACE/LOG
>
> **** Please note that  "[.]" causes a ".DIR" to be created at the root
>level.
>
>The docs state that the directories will be
>
>     {your_disk_drive}:[SQR_INSTALL.{db_code}.BIN]
>     {your_disk_drive}:[SQR_INSTALL.{db_code}.LIB]
>     {your_disk_drive}:[SQR_INSTALL.{db_code}.IMAGES]
>     {your_disk_drive}:[SQR_INSTALL.{db_code}.README]
>     {your_disk_drive}:[SQR_INSTALL.{db_code}.SAMPLE]
>     {your_disk_drive}:[SQR_INSTALL.{db_code}.TUTORIAL]
>
>** db_code will be ORA for ORACLE
>
>In reality, these directories were created
>
>     {your_disk_drive}:[SQR_INSTALL.BIN]
>     {your_disk_drive}:[SQR_INSTALL.LIB]
>     {your_disk_drive}:[SQR_INSTALL.IMAGES]
>     {your_disk_drive}:[SQR_INSTALL.README]
>     {your_disk_drive}:[SQR_INSTALL.SAMPLE]
>     {your_disk_drive}:[SQR_INSTALL.TUTORIAL]
>
>additionally,
>
>All files, that should have been copied to the above directories, were
>copied to the root directory.
>
>Any ideas ?????
>