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

[Carl Lowenstein]

> Subject: RE: [Simh] how to move vms backup tapes to the emulator
> Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 20:47:12 -0500
> Thread-Topic: [Simh] how to move vms backup tapes to the emulator
> From: "Lu, Mark" <LuMark at navcanada.ca>
> 
> 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.

	mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf 1

    carl
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