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

[Paul Sture]

On 2016-11-11, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
> 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.

IIRC zipfiles contain an index at the end of file, and if you can't read
that the whole thing is toast.

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