On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Joseph L. Casale <jcasale at activenetwerx.com> wrote: >>Works for me.. Maybe you have backupdir set someplace else?? I just >>tried with fully updated 4.8 and 5.5 systems.. > > Odd, even with backupdir explicitly set, it doesn't make a copy? > It's getting disabled someplace as strace doesn't indicate any > mention of it. strace won't show much unless there's a system call being made. You'd need a debugger to watch the application itself.. Can you dump your current configuration? I.e., post output of: :set or :let