[Info-vax] VMS - The new file system. What do we know about it?...

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <o041pj$j9e$1 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm
<jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes: 

> > - Will existing RMS work with it?
> 
> Yes, the goal is that RMS will work as it is. No RMS re-work
> planned as I understand (in regard to the new file system).
> 
> The structures that goes from 32 to 64 bits are those that
> are below RMS, so to speak. Something was mentioned as an
> example of a limit that will not change due to this, but I
> do not remember what it was. Hm, maybe it was the maximum
> size of any single individual file? Yes, I think it was...
> 1 TB it is, right?
> 
> So I guess that if/when you have these larger volumes, you
> cannot any longer take full backups as disk backup savesets.

Is that the best way to backup things today?  Zip can handle large 
files.  The advantages here are that it is much quicker to extract one 
or a few files than is the case with a saveset and also that they can be 
extract on other platforms.  Recent versions of zip also allow for 
something like an incremental backup.