[Simh] Best NFS Serevr for OpenVMS?

[Zane H. Healy]

At 7:44 AM +0000 4/16/08, Peter Moreton wrote:
>I'm trying to backup some physical VAXes inorder to SIMH them, but 
>don't have enough disk storage available, so was thinking about 
>using a PC to provide NFS storage, and UCX to be an NFS client. (UCS 
>does have an NFS client, right?)
>
>Before I go googling for a suitable NFS server, can the community 
>advise of good, free Windows NFS servers that have been shown to 
>work with OpenVMS?
>
>(or maybe there are other ways to get some cheap storage online to a VAX?)

I've mounted both OpenBSD and FreeBSD (actually FreeNAS which is 
FreeBSD based) NFS shares on my OpenVMS 8.3 system which runs TCPIP. 
The chief thing to be aware of is that you're limited on your max 
file size.  The max file size is what stopped what I was attempting, 
namely having virtual disks living on the NFS server, as I need 
18-36GB disk images.  I've been meaning to go back and look into 
using 4GB virtual tapes for backups.

If you have a cluster, simply bring up a SIMH member of the cluster, 
and copy over the cluster.

Zane


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