[Info-vax] VMS 5.0

[Paul Sture]

On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 07:59:32 -0600, Bob Koehler wrote:

> In article <j9hmep$fpe$2 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist
> <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
>> 
>> In all fairness, he did complain about the time for a BACKUP /VERIFY,
>> which suggested he was writing to the tape, not reading a
>> distribution... :-)
> 
>    I've read many a distribution with BACKUP/VERIFY.
> 
>    It's in the command in vmsinstal.com.

Yes, but it never took me anywhere near nine hours.

Maybe I was lucky that I was mainly using third party tape drives?



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