[Info-vax] NFS proxy database when booted from DVD?

[Dave Froble]

On 1/31/2019 3:09 PM, Craig A. Berry wrote:
>
> I'm contemplating dumping some backup savesets from an rx2660 running
> TCP/IP Services V5.7 - ECO 5 to an NFS share.  Feel free to try talking
> me out of it, but I may not have any choice.  I have read up on the NFS
> client in chapter 23 of:
>
> <https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-c04622256>
>
> which I guess are the latest docs even though they haven't been touched
> in thirteen years.
>
> Being old-fashioned,

No, smart ...

> I'm contemplating what it would take to restore one
> of these backups, such as to a brand new system with empty disk drives
> after the old system went up in smoke.  I would obviously need to be
> able to mount the NFS share after booting the system from something
> other than local drives.  Among the options I'm aware of, InfoServer has
> no chance, USB thumb drive is a maybe, and DVD is most likely.
>
> What I can't figure out from the docs is how to make entries in an NFS
> proxy database when booted from read-only media and there is no local
> writable storage other than what I'm about to restore to.  The docs say
> (in section 23.1.6), "If the local user or the NFS client has no proxy
> for the host serving a DNFS device, all operations performed by that
> user on that device are seen as coming from the default user (–2/–2)."
>
> So how can I make the local SYSTEM account be seen as a particular user
> on the NFS server if there is no way to create a proxy entry for it?  Or
> do I have to make the NFS share and the savesets on it world readable so
> that the "default user" can access them (ouch)?

Ok, why NFS?

I'm serious, why do things the perhaps hard way?

FTP will move files to just about anywhere you want, right?

So, you've lost everything, and want to restore onto new HW.

Some assumptions:

I'm working on an Alpha ...
You'll have a way to boot up the VMS distribution media
You can then access your storage
The VMS distribution disk includes the capability to run TCP/IP.
(That last one I've never tried)

Note, if that doesn't work, then just install a temp VMS and TCP/IP.

So, then FTP the system disk SAVE SET to somewhere on the new HW.  Then 
do an image restore of the system disk.  Boot new system disk, and 
restore the rest of your stuff.

Try that with WEENDOZE shit.  The capability of booting VMS off the 
distribution media is rather handy, don't you think?

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