Yep yep. My fault. Its becuase im from Unix so just read nul as null. Or
rather it automatically comes out as null when im typiing.

too many  >/dev/null 2>&1

:)

Bobby Williams wrote:
> You are putting in an extra l (lower case L).
>
> The null devices on windows only has one lower case L.  And the tech note 
> shows only one.
>
> Bobby.
>
>
>
>
> From: Dave Markham <dave.markham at fjserv.net>
> Date: 2006/11/09 Thu AM 09:03:33 EST
> To: "veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu" <veritas-bu at 
> mailman.eng.auburn.edu>
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] bpbkar null windows file
>
> Sorry for the strange topic. im trying to run a bpbkar32 -nocont
> ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES 1> null 2> null (or even c: instead of
> all_local_drives) on a windwos 2000  box with netbackup 4.5 client.
>
> Its very strange but it starts to create a file called 'null' which
> grows so i have to kil the process off.
>
> Im following technote :-
>
> http://support.veritas.com/docs/242918
>
> and doing exactly what it says.
>
> Any ideas?
>
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