[Info-vax] image backup on itanium

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <mi3fdk$7pm$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman
<seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes: 

> > an image backup also keeps track of linked directories, it knows about 
> > set file/enter.
> > AFAIK copy is unaware of that and would produce a much larger footprint 
> > than backup does.
> 
> Neither COPY nor BACKUP /NOIMAGE is appropriate for and neither will 
> work particularly well for system disks on any of the three 
> architectures.  

As I said, I got the .ISO from the hobbyist web site and used COPY to a 
copy it to a /FOREIGN mounted disk.  This disk was bootable with no 
further effort.

I think there is some confusion:

   $ MOUNT/FOREIGN DKB100:
   $ COPY XXX.ISO DKB100:

worked for me on ALPHA.  Note: not COPY [...]*.* DKB100:[...].  Note 
that the .ISO is a file and I copied just this one file.