[Info-vax] MicroVAX/VMS newbie, couple of questions

[VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG]

In article <4ac38a7a$0$1648$703f8584 at textnews.kpn.nl>, Wilm Boerhout <w6.boerhout at planet.nl> writes:
>VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG vaguely mentioned on 29-9-2009 22:19:
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>> Restore saveset .B to the system disk and then boot from the disk.  It
>> might be sage to execute STABACKIT to create a standalone backup on the
>> system disk and then boot from it.  I hated STABACKIT boot from tape.
>
>It is good to have alternatives. It is not 100% sure that Standalone 
>Backup built with (and booted as) VMS 5.4 will be able to read a VMS 7.3 
>distribution. There has been some version creep even in backup saveset 
>format, as I have found out to my great sorrow (and time wasted).

I can put a standalone backup on the tape too. ;)

I have a V5.3 here.  I'll see what backup does with it.

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