[Info-vax] DECnet bashing

[Dave Froble]

On 8/9/2020 9:09 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> 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... :-)

Kind of vague ....

I would not expect an x86 system disk to boot on anything else.

Same with VAX/Alpha/itanic ....

Are they saying that if the save set of an x86 system disk is created on 
non-x86, that it will then not boot when restored to an x86 system?

Or, are they saying they fixed the issue?

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