[Info-vax] compile for VAX 8650 system

[Stanley F. Quayle]

If you are building a system from "scratch", you will need to find the VAXeln tool kit, VMS, etc. etc. But if you image all the disks from the existing system to an emulator, your existing disks come over with all that stuff ready to go.

You almost certainly have DECnet installed. DECnet can do backups over the network. I generally use this approach for my CHARON-VAX installs.

If you can't use DECnet (corporate policy, connectivity, etc.), you can use TCP/IP. If you have a "spare" disk, you could build backups there and then FTP them. But most systems don't have enough unused space. I guess it's possible to add a disk for that purpose, but you'll have to find something compatible to your hardware.

You could use NFS to do those backups instead, but your TCP/IP stack probably doesn't support NFS. MultiNet from Process Software might support your version of VMS, DEC's UCX product didn't support that until fairly recently. In either event, you'd need a NFS server -- NFS support is built into Linux, so that might be a decent server for the transfers.