[Info-vax] Backup TK50 tapes

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2013-02-23 14:48, ChrisQ wrote:
> On 02/23/13 13:09, supervinx wrote:
>>> Are you using standalone backup here, or the BACKUP available from the
>>> VMS prompt?  ISTR that standalone backup supplied with VAX-VMS doesn't
>>> offer the full functionality of the command line version.
>>>
>> No, I'm using the CLI backup...
>>
>>> I think if you use the virtual tape emulation of LDDRIVER to mount an LM
>>> device you should be able to copy from physical tape to virtual tape.
>>
>> It seems that BACKUP can't go /PHYSICAL on input tapes, since it treats
>> them as savesets...
>>
>
> If you can find a TK50-Z scsi tape drive, you may be able to use Linux /
> unix
> and dd to copy to files. There may also be later scsi versions of TK50
> drives
> as well.
>
> The TK50-Z is a bit old now, but was the optional tape drive for the VS2000
> series machines...

That will totally not create anything useful for him.
Unix, in all it's "glory" really sucks at some things. Record-oriented 
devices is one of those things.
If you use dd, you'll have a lot of digging to do later, in order to get 
something useful out of the results.

	Johnny

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