[Info-vax] DECnet bashing

[Simon Clubley]

On 2020-08-08, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

As Bill suggested, NFS is one possibility. The VMS implementation can
store small header files along with the data to preserve RMS attributes.

> Something such as:
>
> $ backup/image/noalias/ignore=(LABEL,INTERLOCK) DISK0: -
>          AS800::DISK2:[BACKUP]DFE90A_DISK0.BCK /save_set
>

Your backup is missing a /VERIFY qualifier. :-)

I don't see a username and password there. Are you using DECnet proxies ?

How do you restore your system disk backup if you don't have a local
backup device on the machine in question ?

Simon.

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