Jan,

Is this a new installation?  If it is new, do you have a volume history (q
volhist)?  Have you defined devices?

If it is not a new installation, have the backup commands worked before?  If
not, what version is your server?

Bill Smoldt    SSSI
Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.
smoldt AT storsol DOT com

> I run the following commands on the server:
> BACKUP VOLHISTORY FILENAMES=volhistfilename and
> BACKUP DEVCONFIG FILENAMES=devconffilename.
>
> AIX creates both volhistfilename and devconffilename, and
> indicates the two
> files
> referred the time of the command running.
>
> The problem is that nothing is written to the files. They are completely
> empty.
> By the way: The command completes "successfully"!