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Notifying Users of Pending Backup [ STORE and TurboSTORE/iX Manual ] MPE/iX 5.0 Documentation


STORE and TurboSTORE/iX Manual

Notifying Users of Pending Backup 

About 15 minutes before you plan to begin the backup, use the TELL
command to send a message asking all users to finish their work and to
log off the system.  Enter the following command substituting the actual
time that you plan to begin the backup for hh:mm.

     :TELL @S; BACKUP BEGINS AT hh:mm.  PLEASE LOGOFF; & 
     :TELL YOUR QUIET NEIGHBORS 

(A QUIET neighbor is someone who has specified not to be disturbed with
terminal messages.)



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