[Info-vax] Saving data

[John Smith (not the one @ HP)]

Since they are retiring the system, maybe they'll let you keep one of the 
drives with all your stuff on it. If you have another VMS box in your 
personal collection @ home that can mount the drive, then you're laughing.


"Bill Gunshannon" <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu> wrote in message 
news:91vtjrFba6U1 at mid.individual.net...
>I have I question based on what many will see as yet more bad news.
>
> The Univeristy has just informed us that they are getting ready to
> retire the last academic VMS machine here at the University (I should
> say that they are v erifying that no one is doing anything critical
> on it before doing so, but being as no one is doing anything on it,
> well you cans ee where this is going).
>
> I have stuff I would really like to save before it goes away.  is there
> an easy way to archive or just plain move all of my stuff inclucing sub-
> directories?  No, they do not have ZIP/UNZIP on the system.  I have FTP
> but that doesn't do directories recursively (at least not that I know of).
> Is there a backup command I could use given that I need to write the
> archive into the same directory I am archiving (think recursive, infinte
> tar!!!)
>
> Any help appreciated as I have quite a bit of stuff (including a lot of
> my Ada work) on this machine and would hate to just loose it.
>
> bill
>
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