[Info-vax] image backup on itanium

[Bob Koehler]

In article <mi35ri$1rsp$1 at news.kjsl.com>, helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de (Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)) writes:
> In article <497347fd-7c57-4ca5-b681-e886f0a75dcd at googlegroups.com>, Hans
> Vlems <hvlems at freenet.de> writes: 
> 
>> For alpha that worked for me too, Philip. Though I always used
>> backup/image to restore the ISO file to a harddisk. 
> 
> Two different things.  BACKUP/IMAGE creates a disk which is LOGICALLY 
> the same, i.e. at the Files-11 level.  It doesn't know about anything 
> lower-level than that.  COPYing the .ISO will make a bit-for-bit copy.

   It does where it has to, or the resulting disk isn't logically the
   same.  Has been so at least since the VAX 11/750 bootblock.