[Info-vax] Copying VMS SaveSet Under Windows

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

On 2010-11-21 17:36, smithfarm wrote:
> 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.

No, you don't. You can simply use ZIP and create a standard ZIP
archive (including the VMS file attributes). That ZIP file can
be handled by any FTP tool and on any system available, it is
a plain 512 byte fixed record ZIP-file.

The *content* of the ZIP file (the saveset) will still probably
only be rellevant on a VMS system.

Anyway, the final solution very much depends on what the
goal with all this is.




>
> 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