[Info-vax] Backup TK50 tapes

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2013-02-23 04:02, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2013-02-23 01:45:46 +0000, supervinx said:
>
>> Hi !
>> I'm facing this problem.
>> I have a bunch of TK50 original tapes and I want to create tape
>> images, in order
>> to save data and use them into simh.
>> ...
>> 1) May I create those images with the available hardware ?
>
> Um, BACKUP /PHYSICAL does that.  BACKUP /PHYSICAL is the rough VMS
> equivalent of dd, and it can be used to create a physical saveset.  But
> that's a pile of work, with a pile of gear, and arguably unnecessary if
> there's a network here.

Just wanted to point out that dd would be more or less totally useless 
in this scenario. :-)
So I hope BACKUP /PHYSICAL do it better.

	Johnny

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