Andy Raibeck wrote in March 1999:
"In the case of a SELECTIVE backup or an ARCHIVE, if one or more files can
not be backed up (or archived) then the event will be failed. The rationale
for this is that if you ask to selectively back up or archive one or more
files, the assumption is that you want each and every one of those files to
be processed. If even one file fails, then the event will have a status of
failed. So the basic difference is that with incremental we expect that one
or more files might not be able to be processed, so we do not flag such a
case as failed. In other cases, like SELECTIVE or ARCHIVE, we expect that
each file specified *must* be processed successfully, or else we flag the
operation as failed."

Has this changed?  Under 3.1.06 client on NT, an archive would show as
failed if a file was in use.  With the 4.11.16 client, archive does not show
as failed when files are in use or when archiving drives that do not exist.

Thanks,
Tim Rushforth
trushfor AT city.winnipeg.mb DOT ca