[Info-vax] Backup TK50 tapes

[supervinx]

Il Sat, 23 Feb 2013 20:50:29 -0800, Steven Schweda ha scritto:

> I haven't looked at a real STABACKIT.COM for a long time, but I do have
> a DCL script to produce a MicroVAX Diagnostic Monitor (VAX diagnostics)
> tape.  It mounts the destination tape (typically a TK50) with /BLOCKSIZE
> = 512, and then uses COPY /CONTIGUOUS to copy the boot-related files,
> SYSBOOT.EXE and MDM.SYS to the tape.  Then it does a DISMOUNT /NOUNLOAD,
> followed by a MOUNT /BLOCKSIZE = 8192, and then it copies all the other
> files (mostly N%%%%.EXE) to the tape.  So, the structure of this
> particular bootable tape is not perfectly simple, but it's not
> especially complicated, either.
> 
>> The files on the tape are definitely save sets.  You don't want to
>> "manage" them, you just want to copy them.
> 
>    Which "the files" on which "the tape"?
> 
>    According to my dim recollection (subject to change
> without notice) ...
> 
>    An official DEC two-tape TK50 VMS V5.x installation kit
> has Standalone BACKUP at the beginning of the second tape, followed by
> the DECwindows kit files (BACKUP save sets).  The first tape has the
> primary VMS kit files (BACKUP save sets), but no Standalone BACKUP.  So,
> one boots Standalone BACKUP from the second tape, and then uses it to
> install VMS from the first tape (and then the second tape, when so
> directed, if installing DECwindows).
> 
Ah, that's why I found the EXE binaries on the second tape... It confused 
me a bit...