[Info-vax] Copying VMS SaveSet Under Windows

[Steven Schweda]

Jeff wrote:
> Hello All, I have a tape with an OpenVMS SaveSet (probby written under
> V8.3) that I need to copy to an external USB drive. However, I have no
> OpenVMS system to read it on, just Windows Server 2003. Does anyone
> know of a software product that I can use to COPY the SaveSet (and
> keep its original format) from an LTO tape to a USB drive? I have
> tried HP Data Protector - it can see the tape label, but cannot copy
> the contents.

   Are you trying to copy the BACKUP save set itself, or are
you trying to extract the files from that save set?

   I have no experience with tape on Windows, but I'd guess
that there's some simple way to get the contents of a tape
into a disk file.

   I have no experience dealing with BACKUP save sets except
on VMS, but I seem to recall hearing of a program named
VMSBACKUP, which might let you extract the data from a save
set, if you can get it off the tape.  A Web search should find
it.

> [...] to a USB drive?

   And then what's supposed to happen?


Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> [...]
> As of the last I heard VMS does not support USB. [...]

   You must not get out much.  "HELP UCM", for example.  With
a little extra (non-HP) help, it's even possible to deal with
a FAT-format USB flash-EEPROM storage gizmo (camera, ...).