<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 20, 2018, at 8:17 PM, Larry Baker <<a href="mailto:baker@usgs.gov" class="">baker@usgs.gov</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">You should be able to write an ODS-5 backup save set to an ODS-2 disk image on your SIMH VAX. It may help you decide whether the cluster I/O or the virtual tape drive is the culprit crashing your VAX. Make the VAX disk large enough. Cluster mount it. Do the backup entirely from the Alpha using MSCP I/O.</span><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">One thing I've never tried is to restore ODS-5 files to an ODS-2 disk. Does BACKUP give you some options to at least deal with renaming non-ODS-2 file names?<div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div class="" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Larry Baker<br class="">US Geological Survey<br class="">650-329-5608<br class=""><a href="mailto:baker@usgs.gov" class="">baker@usgs.gov</a></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">I’m not sure what will happen if you try restore ODS-5 files to a ODS-2 disk. That’s something I’ve not tried.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Interesting, it wasn’t just the VAX that I crashed. I just realized I also crashed the Alpha. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Zane</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>