[Info-vax] Unix on A DEC Vax?

[Paul Sture]

In article <0f9cc4f1-9f32-4d3a-9ad6-0dcaa0c2e59a at googlegroups.com>,
 "Stanley F. Quayle" <stanley.f.quayle at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Having seen the speed of shadow copies under SimH and the free Alpha
> > emulators the improved disk speeds are no surprise.  Is the full backup
> > time for CHARON-VAX quoted on your web page to tape or disk?
> 
> As I recall, he's backing up to virtual tape.  That becomes a file in 
> Windows, which is then archived to storage elsewhere using standard Windows 
> tools.

Thanks.  That is the approach I took for VMS when my DAT drive died (via 
LDDRIVER tape images on an NFS host).

-- 
Paul Sture