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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2016-11-11, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
> In article <o041pj$j9e$1 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm
><jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes: 
>> 
>> 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. 
>

Those backup savesets have redundancy built into them to allow
you to recover from some types of bad media or saveset corruption.

Simon.

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