[Info-vax] Backup TK50 tapes

[Bob Koehler]

In article <kgamfr$fhg$1 at speranza.aioe.org>, supervinx <nessuno at libero.it> writes:
> Before any misunderstanding will occur...
> Together with a VAX4000/300 I rescued some original TK50 tapes.
> They contain VMS 5.5, 5.5-1 and they seem not to contain any saveset, but only
> *.EXE files (VMB.EXE, SYSBOOT.EXE...) so they looks like bootable tapes.
> Am I wrong? 
> Since I never installed VMS except from a CD, I'm dubious about boot tapes.

   That could be a bootable tape.  They were slow, but they worked.
   They are not BACKUP savesets, so BACKUP can't read them.  For tape,
   backup can only handle savesets.

   COPY can handle these files.
> 
> I can mount and read, obviously, tape content.
> The question was how too keep the bootable structure... if one exists...

   Just keep the files in the same order.  Or, look for old writeups on
   a more efficient order.