[Info-vax] Backup A Dying Disk.

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <mebruj$9gc$1 at dont-email.me>, David Froble
<davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes: 

> Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> > In article <a2950ec9-8f65-4de8-b839-6062b280386b at googlegroups.com>,
> > wa2flq <jsw at ieee.org> writes: 
> > 
> >> I have RD54 disk that that whose entropy is rising. Someone who doesn't hav=
> >> e a backup asked me to save what I can before it dies completely.  I realiz=
> >> e its probably a goner, but I want to give it a shot.
> > 
> > If the data are worth saving, where is HBVS?
> 
> On a MV-II ?

Possible.

> On VMS V5.2 ?

I don't know.  I came in at 5.5, but started using HBVS on 7.1.  I don't 
know when it was introduced.

> Shadowing is not a replacement for a good BACKUP strategy.

Right.  However, one thing it deals with really well is maintaining data 
integrity in the case of disk failure.