[Info-vax] Best way to get what I can off a failed VMS Disk?

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <rn17t3$bau$1 at dont-email.me>, Chris Townley
<news at cct-net.co.uk> writes: 

> I have a failing ODS-2 disk in my Alpha (HPE VMS 8.3)

That is one thing HBVS is good for.

> What is the best way to recover those files that are recoverable, with 
> the drive going into mount verify?

Before things get any worse, try to make a shadow set out of it then get 
rid of the bad disk (and then at the latest add a second good disk to 
the shadow set; you can have up to 6 members).