Nam block errors

[John McL]

Could the problem be the absence of the top level directory specification?

I notice that Steven S used [*...] as the output specification when restoring in his test of accessing to more than 8 directory levels, which worked fine, but the original problem just had [...]

In the original problem I'd try specifiying the output for the restore operation as gollum:[000000...]*.*;*

[Kelly Stewart_1]

John, Steven,

I created a directory tree with eight levels, DKA200:[d1.d2.d3.d4.d5.d6.d7.d8]. I created file test.txt in the lowest directory. I backed-up this tree to saveset test.sav. I then tried to restore the tree to dka300: using various file specifications:

$ set def dka300:[000000]
$
$ backup test.sav/sav [...]
%BACKUP-I-INVDEEPDIR, output directory [000000...] not valid for deepdirectories, try rooted logical
%BACKUP-E-OPENOUT, error opening DKA300:[000000...]TEST.SAV;1 as output-RMS-F-DIR, error in directory name
%BACKUP-I-INVDEEPDIR, output directory [000000...] not valid for deepdirectories, try rooted logical
%BACKUP-E-OPENOUT, error opening DKA300:[000000...]*.*; as output-RMS-F-DIR, error in directory name
$
$
$ backup test.sav/sav [000000...]
%BACKUP-I-INVDEEPDIR, output directory [000000...] not valid for deepdirectories, try rooted logical
%BACKUP-E-OPENOUT, error opening DKA300:[000000...]TEST.SAV;1 as output-RMS-F-DIR, error in directory name
%BACKUP-I-INVDEEPDIR, output directory [000000...] not valid for deepdirectories, try rooted logical
%BACKUP-E-OPENOUT, error opening DKA300:[000000...]*.*; as output-RMS-F-DIR, error in directory name
$
$ backup test.sav/sav [*...]
$

So the only syntax of these three that worked was Steven's.

When I tried to clean these test files up, I found that $DELETE would not delete the eighth directory even with the above syntax. I had to create a rooted logical to get it.

Note that the error message for the first two is not the same as the OP. But I have gotten the RMS-F-RLF error trying to restore eight sub-directories before. Unfortunately, I don't have time right now to hunt for the syntax that caused that error.

I wouldn't be surprised if Jack had a user that recently created that eighth directory. Maybe the "[*...]" syntax will work for him.

Kelly