[Info-vax] Do you (or someone you work with) sysman on Windows?

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Jan-Erik Soderholm skrev den 2015-05-13 00:15:
> Stephen Hoffman skrev den 2015-05-12 21:23:
>> On 2015-05-12 17:46:20 +0000, Steven Schweda said:
>>
>>>> [...] Why do they always rebuild the system disk from scratch???
>>
>> With OS X, that's usually an expeditious approach, as you can re-upgrade
>> and reinstall OS X over itself, and *not* lose user customizations, nor
>> user settings, nor add-on packages.  Very handy for resolving disk
>> corruptions — hard disks can have from three to six hard errors per
>> terabyte, per some studies.  Hardware RAID or HBVS helps, but not everybody
>> has that configured and available.
>>
>> With OpenVMS, I've found that clean installs have benefits over continuing
>> to upgrade ancient system disks, as well.
>
> You mean not to have:
>
> $ prod sho hist openvms
> -------------------------- --------- ---------- --- -----------
> PRODUCT                    KIT TYPE  OPERATION  VAL DATE
> -------------------------- --------- ---------- --- -----------
> DEC AXPVMS OPENVMS V8.4    Platform  Install    Sys 29-SEP-2012
> DEC AXPVMS OPENVMS V8.3    Platform  Remove      -  29-SEP-2012
> DEC AXPVMS OPENVMS V8.3    Platform  Install    (U) 15-OCT-2009
> DEC AXPVMS OPENVMS V8.2    Platform  Remove      -  15-OCT-2009
> DEC AXPVMS OPENVMS V8.2    Platform  Install        24-APR-2006
> DEC AXPVMS OPENVMS V7.3-2  Platform  Remove         24-APR-2006
> DEC AXPVMS OPENVMS V7.3-2  Platform  Install        24-APR-2006
> DEC AXPVMS OPENVMS V7.2    Platform  Remove         24-APR-2006
> DEC AXPVMS OPENVMS V7.2    Platform  Install        11-MAY-1999
> DEC AXPVMS OPENVMS V7.1-2  Platform  Remove         11-MAY-1999
> DEC AXPVMS OPENVMS V7.1-2  Platform  Install        06-DEC-1998
> -------------------------- --------- ---------- --- -----------
> 11 items found
>
> There is nothing that we have identified as a problem
> comming from this, at least.
>

I happend to check our dev box also:

DEC AXPVMS VMS V8.2      Oper System Install    12-DEC-2006
DEC AXPVMS VMS V7.3-2    Oper System Remove     12-DEC-2006
DEC AXPVMS VMS V7.3-2    Oper System Install    12-DEC-2006
DEC AXPVMS VMS V7.2      Oper System Remove     12-DEC-2006
DEC AXPVMS VMS V7.2      Oper System Install    17-FEB-2000
DEC AXPVMS VMS V6.2      Oper System Remove     17-FEB-2000
DEC AXPVMS VMS V6.2      Oper System Install    27-DEC-1995
DEC AXPVMS VMS V6.1      Oper System Remove     27-DEC-1995
DEC AXPVMS VMS V6.1      Oper System Install    04-MAY-1994

Not the same physical disk, of course. But same system image
that have moved from some RX2x disk to the current IBM
DS8000 FRC SAN.

I don't know it one should expect any problems
with this, it works anyway... :-)