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

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Jan-Erik Soderholm skrev den 2015-05-25 16:00:
> 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... :-)
>

Should have been "RZ2x" disks and "FC SAN"...