[Info-vax] DECnet bashing

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 8/9/20 9:37 AM, hb wrote:
> On 8/9/20 2:04 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> On 8/8/20 5:24 PM, Grant Taylor wrote:
>>> On 8/8/20 9:24 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>>>> I can easily let BACKUP create a saveset on a remote IBM SAN storage 
>>>> system.
>>>
>>> That does not sound like a remote / different VMS host to me.  It 
>>> sounds more like the same local VMS host with what acts like some 
>>> really long SCSI cables.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> How about using NFS?
>>
>> bill
>>
> 
> Should work. But then you have to serve a disk/directory on the remote 
> node and mount it on the local node. That looks different to me.

Well, my experience with NFS is that the necessary server/client
relationship would already exist and the mounts happen when the
systems are booted.

> 
> On other systems one can do something like
>    # tar czf - local/ | ssh remote.net "cat >local.tar"
> to backup and vice versa to restore files.

Tar is by no means equivalent to VMS BACKUP.  And It is not a part
of VMS anyway.

> 
> Unfortunately BACKUP does not work with VMS pipes. And all the ssh 
> clients and servers on VMS I tried, don't support (VMS) pipes either.

Thus the reason I said NFS.  :-)

bill