[Info-vax] Copying VMS SaveSet Under Windows

[smithfarm]

On 11/20/2010 05:01 PM, 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.

First off, as far as I know, there are no plug-ins for Windows (or even 
Linux, for that matter) that would allow one to read disks or tapes 
created under VMS (FILES11).

If you have access to a VMS system with the requisite LTO tape drive, 
then it would be straightforward to transfer the files from the tape to 
disk. From there you could transfer them over the network (using FTP) to 
any system. I would say that's easy, but the fact is you have to choose 
a FTP client that is VMS-aware.

SimH (a VAX emulator that runs on Linux and Windows) will not help in 
this case: with it you can fire up an emulated VAX and install VMS on 
it, but SimH lacks the functionality for connecting a real, physical LTO 
drive to the emulated VAX.

I do hope this helps, even though it probably doesn't!

Nathan