[Info-vax] Backup TK50 tapes

[supervinx]

Il Sun, 24 Feb 2013 07:07:57 -0800, Steven Schweda ha scritto:

>> My goal was to create a physical image of the tapes [...]
> 
>    With a VMS disk, every block is the same size (512 bytes),
> so a simple (raw) copy operation (MOUNT/FOREIGN+COPY, dd, ...) preserves
> all the important information.  The same is not true of a tape, so a
> simple copy operation would seem to be insufficient to preserve a tape,
> so I don't know exactly what "a physical image of the tapes" means.

Tapecopy/tapedd dump an ANSI tape with all headers and data.
But now I'm considering to change my first goal into "possibility to install
VMS 5.5" creating a boot disk from the boot tape set.



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