[Info-vax] Copying savesets over DECnet

[Jim]

On Wednesday, August 26, 2020 at 10:29:16 AM UTC-4, arca... at gmail.com wrote:
> I'm trying to recover some savesets from DLTIII tapes. I've got a working drive and a working tape but I seem to be hitting other issues. 
> 
> I've temporarily set up a bound volume set that I think might be big enough to hold the saveset ... but since everything else has failed, I expect that this will too. 
> 
> So my fallback was going to be to copy the saveset from tape to a remote node that has (much) more diskspace. 
> 
> My attempt was less than successful: 
> 
> $ copy/log mka500:*.* 1.51"system password"::DUA1:[DISK$USER_OBJ] 
> %COPY-E-WRITEERR, error writing 1.51"system password"::DUA1:[DISK$USER_OBJ]OBJ.BCK;1 
> -RMS-E-NETBTS, network buffer too small for 8192 byte record 
> %COPY-W-NOTCMPLT, MKA500:[]OBJ.BCK;1 not completely copied 
> 

Default value for network block count is 8 so you'll need to increase...

$ set rms/network/block=16  ! 16*512=8192