[Info-vax] DECnet bashing

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2020-08-08 kl. 16:06, skrev Dave Froble:
> On 8/8/2020 6:12 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> 
>> How many VMS users use DECnet?  :-D
> 
> It seems that some feel compelled to bash DECnet.
> 
> My most often use of DECnet is nightly backups.  I'd invite those bashers 
> to explain to me how to do a direct BACKUP to a save set on a disk on a 
> remote system.
> 
> Something such as:
> 
> $ backup/image/noalias/ignore=(LABEL,INTERLOCK) DISK0: -
>          AS800::DISK2:[BACKUP]DFE90A_DISK0.BCK /save_set
> 

Depends on what you concider to be a "remote system".

I can easily let BACKUP create a saveset on a remote IBM SAN
storage system. Well, all our storage (disks) are placed there,
but anyway. Don't even know where it is, I think it is at the
other side of town from the location where our VMS systems are.
So they are "remote" for sure.

But then, we do not even use BACKUP for backups at all. I almost
never user BACKUP to anything since many years back. I sometimes
use BACKUP to "read" a log file that is open by process owning it.