[Info-vax] Backup restore system disk

[Simon Clubley]

On 2020-08-18, Craig A. Berry <craigberry at nospam.mac.com> wrote:
> On 8/18/20 12:36 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> 
>> BTW, DFU is _exactly_ the kind of thing that should be shipped as
>> standard with every VMS version from now on.
>
> It has been for quite a few years, though probably not enough years to 
> match the OP's system.  It can also defragment files, which I would 
> think would be more significant than whole-disk defragging when the 
> "disk" is a container file rather than an actual device with spinning rust.

Interesting. When did DFU start being part of the core VMS distribution ?

I first needed it about 15 years or so ago for Alpha VMS (probably V8.3)
and the memory I have is that I had to download it from one of the
freeware archives.

Simon.

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