[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
> 

Since we are/was talking about BACKUP...

Just got a support notice from VSI regarding BACKUP.
One of the issues fixed is this one:

"If an X86 OpenVMS system disk is copied with BACKUP/IMAGE on
any OpenVMS V8.4-2L2 or earlier version, the resulting disk
copy will not boot. No error or warning messages are issued."


First mention of X86 OpenVMS in any support notice I have seen... :-)