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If your intent is to record all commands entered by you from the shell prompt, this is a poor approach to take. With a HISTSIZE of 9000, I seen to recall the bash (and other shells) slow down significantly as the actual history count increases.

Methyl's approach is better. An even better approach is to send your command history to a logging server as the korn shell can do. There is a patch out there for bash. Just do a web search for it.
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BACKUP_INTERACTIVE(8)					       AFS Command Reference					     BACKUP_INTERACTIVE(8)

NAME
       backup_interactive - Enters interactive mode

SYNOPSIS
       backup [interactive] [-localauth] [-cell <cell name>]
	   [-help]

       backup [i] [-l] [-c <cell name>] [-h]

DESCRIPTION
       The backup interactive initiates an interactive session for issuing backup commands. As indicated in the syntax statement, the operation
       code (interactive) is optional.

       Several features of interactive mode distinguish it from regular mode:

       o   In interactive mode, the "backup"> prompt replaces the system (shell) prompt. The operator enters only a command's operation code
	   (omitting the command suite name, backup).

       o   If the -localauth flag or the -cell argument is included on the backup interactive command, the settings apply to all commands issued
	   during that interactive session. The issuer does not need to type them on every command. Another consequence is that the flag and
	   argument do not appear in the syntax statement generated by the help subcommand or -help flag on an individual command issued at the
	   "backup"> prompt.

       o   The backup jobs and backup kill commands are available only in interactive mode. It is not possible to track and terminate backup
	   operations as cleanly in non-interactive mode.

       o   It is not necessary to enclose strings that include metacharacters in double quotes or other delimiters.

       o   The backup command interpreter establishes a connection to the Backup Server, Volume Server and Volume Location (VL) Server processes
	   as it enters interactive mode, and uses the same connection for all commands during the session. Execution time can therefore be faster
	   than in non-interactive mode, in which the command interpreter must establish a new connection for each command.

       To exit an interactive session, issue the backup quit command.

OPTIONS
       -localauth
	   Constructs a server ticket using a key from the local /etc/openafs/server/KeyFile file. The backup command interpreter presents it to
	   the Backup Server, Volume Server and VL Server during mutual authentication. Do not combine this flag with the -cell argument. For more
	   details, see backup(8).

       -cell <cell name>
	   Names the cell in which to run the command. Do not combine this argument with the -localauth flag. For more details, see backup(8).

       -help
	   Prints the online help for this command. All other valid options are ignored.

EXAMPLES
       The following example shows how the -localauth flag and -cell argument do not appear when the help dump subcommand is issued in interactive
       mode.

	  % backup
	  backup> help dump
	  dump: start dump
	  Usage: dump [-volumeset <volume set name>] [-dump <dump level name>]
	  [-portoffset <TC port offset>] [-at <Date/time to start dump>+]
	  [-append ] [-n ] [-file <load file>] [-help ]

PRIVILEGE REQUIRED
       None. However, backup commands that require privilege in regular mode still require it in interactive mode.

SEE ALSO
       backup(8), backup_jobs(8), backup_kill(8), backup_quit(8), butc(8)

COPYRIGHT
       IBM Corporation 2000. <http://www.ibm.com/> All Rights Reserved.

       This documentation is covered by the IBM Public License Version 1.0.  It was converted from HTML to POD by software written by Chas
       Williams and Russ Allbery, based on work by Alf Wachsmann and Elizabeth Cassell.

OpenAFS 							    2012-03-26						     BACKUP_INTERACTIVE(8)