<html><head></head><body>Then I must have misunderstood the usecase. I thought you were looking at preserving a bunch of tapes from a future failure of the hardware.<br>
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Are you then looking at ways to perform backups of a physical system to virtual tape?<br>
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I would probably give the virtual machine a really big disk and run backup to that remote disk and not try to play with remote tapes.<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Zane Healy <healyzh@avanthar.com> skrev: (26 januari 2018 02:54:20 CET)<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">If it was applicable to the situation, then VMSTPC would work great. It’s already installed on my Alpha, and I’m pretty sure there is a VAX binary for it in the VAX directory on there. I also have it installed on my RSX-11M+. It’s definitely a great tool. Just not for this. :-)<br><br>Zane<br><br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Jan 25, 2018, at 2:54 PM, Armistead, Jason <Jason.Armistead@otis.com> wrote:<br> <br> Zane<br> <br> The program that Johnny is thinking of is VMSPTC<br> <br> <a href="http://www.digiater.nl/openvms/decus/vax86a/bnelson/vmstpc/vmstpc.c">http://www.digiater.nl/openvms/decus/vax86a/bnelson/vmstpc/vmstpc.c</a><br> <br> Note sure if this is the latest, but it came up in the first set of Google search results for "VMSTPC"<br> <br> Good luck<br> Jason<br> <br> <br> -----Original Message-----<br> From: Simh [mailto:simh-bounces@trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Johnny Billquist<br> Sent: Thursday, 25 January 2018 5:48 PM<br> To: Zane Healy; Tim Shoppa<br> Cc: simh@trailing-edge.com<br> Subject: Re: [Simh] VAX Tape Emulation?<br> <br> Zane - unless I remember wrong, there is a tool from DECUS to copy tapes to a file image, and then get that back to a tape again. The RSX version is called TPC, and I'm pretty sure it also exists for VMS.<br> <br> Using that, pull your physical tapes into files, copy the files over to the simulated machines, and write them back out to simulated tapes there.<br> <br> Johnny<br></blockquote><hr><br>Simh mailing list<br>Simh@trailing-edge.com<br><a href="http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh">http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh</a></pre></blockquote></div><br>
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