[Info-vax] Request description of UFS for VMS person

[Bob Eager]

On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:29:03 UTC, "Richard B. Gilbert" 
<rgilbert88 at comcast.net> wrote:

> Bob Eager wrote:
> > On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:36:22 UTC, "Richard B. Gilbert" 
> > <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> wrote:
> > 
> >> Try to remember that it's MUCH better to think BEFORE you DELETE!!
> >> It's also a good idea to make a backup copy on floppy disk or CDROM.
> >> It's amazing how often long forgotten files suddenly reacquire value!
> > 
> > I wrote a short macro file (not Macro) in 1972. I found I needed it 
> > again last year.
> > 
> > It was a really tricky file to write....I kept five separate copies, 
> > supposedly in 'safe' places, and lost four of them within a year due to 
> > failings of others. The fifth copy was on a roll of paper tape in a box 
> > under my bed! It spent years on one of our RA81s as well as several 
> > other disks....
> > 
> > There are many other files I bitterly regret not keeping.
> > 
> 
> Now, if you could just find a working paper tape reader. . . .  It has 
> been fifteen or twenty years since I last saw one!

Doesn't matter now. As I said, I lost the other copies within a year, so
a  tape reader was readily available. That file exists on at least three
CDs, in different locations, plus two hard disks and a backup tape or 
two.

> I have a small collection of 3-1/2" floppy disks that hold a small 
> collection of useful stuff.  The same stuff is also stored on hard disk.
> Hopefully, I'll be able to recover what I need when, and if, I ever need 
> it again.

All my floppies are imaged to disk, with copies on CD and tape.
-- 
Bob Eager