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

[MG]

On 17-feb-2013 16:13, David Froble wrote:
> Maybe it's a sign that these types of disasters don't happen very often
> on VMS systems.

/Please/, don't /kid/ yourself...

Also, most importantly, VMS can't help it if sub-standard software
(like CIFS, in its current form) malfunctions and destroys data.


> If you don't need something, then not having it is not an indication of
> an OS in decline.

Again, please don't kid yourself...  There's DFU and also Florian
(apparently, thanks to Keith Cayemberg for reminding us and pointing
us to it), perhaps other tools as well.

DFU is pretty well-known, I've heard of it ever since I first started
using VMS and I was recommended it as an 'absolute essential' (a bit
like LDD).

  - MG