CompuServe Thread

Mark, Thanks for your quick response to my other questions. I checked the multi-backup stuff I found I was mistaken. I does only display the requestor 1 time. The DMA memory situation is somewhat unfortunate. Couldn't you folks just have a button for FAST MEMORY, forcing the buffers into the FAST RAM (or am I still missing something?) I decided the Idea of macros to maintain the backup sets was a good idea so I set out to do some, but I don't believe QB has enough REXX support for my scenarios: I would like to setup macros for the following: Macro (1) Full backup of all my standard volumes. Macro (2) Incremental backup of all my standard volumes. (I would like #1 & #2 to automatically append the new backup sets onto the end of the tape) Macro (3) Build catalog of all volumes on a tape. I can see how to do #1, this is nearly the same as the sample macro. I cannot see how to do #2. This requires REXX commands to setup the tagfilters so I can tag only files which have not been already backed up. In both #1 and #2 I can't figure out how to SPACE the tape to the end of the last backup set. Can I just go until I get an error then assume it is positioned at the end of the last set? For #3 I cannot determine how to READ the backup set name from REXX so I and save the info into a file. I hope you can help me out. I realize I can do this all by hand, but with 2 gigabyte tapes I will be keeping LOTS of backup sets on a single tape and without automated ways to keep track of the contents of a tape I am bound to lose backup sets, or overwrite them… Jeff