[Info-vax] ZIP SYS$INPUT

[Syltrem]

"JF Mezei" <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> a écrit dans le message de news: 
01519600$0$11354$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com...
> Syltrem wrote:
>
>> $ zip f.zip sys$input:
>>         zip warning: name not matched: sys$input:
>>
>> zip error: Nothing to do! (DGSI_A1:[TREMBLAY.STMEP.HERABKP]F.ZIP;)
>
> Zip needs a filename and possibly file size to include in the header
> before it can encode/compress the data.
>
>> BTW I am on VAX 7.3 so BACKUP /DATA=COMPRESS is not available and 
>> probably
>> never will.
>
> If you could cluster the vax with a modern machine, then you could use
> the backup on the modern machine with /DATA=COMPRESS to process the
> VAX's drive.
>
> Is this a one time thing, or a regular production ?
>
> What type of drives are on your VAX ? How much do you need for the backup 
> ?

It's mostly a network issue.
Way too expensive to backup to a remote device and/or server, which is why 
I`m looking at compression.

Syltrem