On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 09:46:34PM +0200, Laurenz Albe wrote: ! On Mon, 2020-06-15 at 19:00 +0200, Peter wrote: ! > And that is one of a couple of likely pitfalls I perceived when ! > looking at that new API. ! ! That is a property of my scripts, *not* of the non-exclusive ! backup API... Then how would I have figured it before even knowing Your scripts? The API requires such kind of programming, and such kind of programming creates dangerous pitfalls. After You have trained soms hundreds of system administrators, You will also see such things right at first glance. But then it's futile to discuss with religious people, as they are blind to reasoning: AL II. 58, "The slaves shall serve." cheerio, PMc