[Simh] how to move vms backup tapes to the emulator

Lu, Mark LuMark at navcanada.ca
Mon Nov 1 20:47:12 EST 2004


> But i still get error msgs when running BACKUP to restore.....)
> > Another thought is to build the vmsbackup.c program on unix/linux 
> > and
> > read the tape and save to disk,
> > then run vmsbackup again to make a on disk saveset which then could
be 

I must have had finger troubles the first time, because BACKUP restore
seems to work properly now with a different tape's save_set.
Supposedly you can use mt and dd to get the tape saveset directly onto
disk, but I couldn't get "mt -f /dev/st0 fsf 1" on my linux to stop
auto-rewinding right after, so I modified vmsbackup.c instead to write()
the same thing.




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