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

[Craig A. Berry]

On 1/31/19 3:51 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> 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.  

> Ok, why NFS?

After explaining three times in a meeting that there is no SMB client on
VMS so I can't just "back up to a file share" like every other OS on the
planet, NFS seemed like the least evil thing that uses the same backup
infrastructure that every other system in the company uses.  This in a
context where the existing fibre channel SAN is being decommissioned
because everything else is happy with ordinary networks, so no one wants
to maintain the old special switches and doodads involved.

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

But then you have to hire Hoff and send him out to buy sandwiches while
you're doing it so he doesn't see FTP still being used in 2019 ;-).

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

> 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.

sftp or scp, not ftp, but yes this is one of the options.  But, you said
"to somewhere on the new HW."  If the new HW matches the old HW, there
will be a system disk and a data disk (4 physical drives in 2 RAID 1
configurations).  No doubt I could use the data disk as a scratch disk
and put a system image saveset on it and restore the system from that.
Then where do I put the data disk image?  There might be room on the
system disk, or I might scrounge a large enough USB stick.  Once you've
used "might" twice in one sentence in a DR plan, you better hope you
never have to execute that plan.  It shouldn't be hard to justify the
purchase of some additional storage ahead of time.  The fact that it
shouldn't be doesn't mean it won't be.