[Info-vax] ODS-5 data/file recovery

[Hein RMS van den Heuvel]

On Friday, February 15, 2013 3:20:48 PM UTC-5, VAXm... at SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article <e278eed8-70c3-484f-a429-5aff858824b8 at googlegroups.com>, Hein RMS van den Heuvel <heinvandenheuvel at gmail.com> writes:
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> >On Friday, February 15, 2013 11:51:25 AM UTC-5, MG wrote:
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> >> On 15-feb-2013 17:01, Hein RMS van den Heuvel wrote:
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> >> > Right. Image backup goes for cleanly accessible files only, physical backup
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> >> > mayget you the lost bytes, the tricky part will be to find them, all of :
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> >> few 'hints' to get me started?  I'd be most grateful.
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> >Marco, I'll send you  DCL script that know how to intertpret INDEXF.SYS as
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> >well as a C program. What you really need is 'the black book'.  I gave my
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> How black is that book, Hein?

Not entirely. It has a red-yellow-green swirls on the cover.
VMS File Systems Internals; Kirby McCoy