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

[David Froble]

MG wrote:
> 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...

I've been working with VMS since 1978.  I''ve gotten rather good at "not 
kidding myself".  Hey, it's not MY data that is missing, now is it?

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

I don't use CIFS, and as I mentioned before, I never use MOVE.

>> 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.

I may have used DFU once, not sure ....

> 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).

If I haven't used it, then just how essential is it ??