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

[Scott Dorsey]

Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
>In article <rn1ids$78o$1 at panix2.panix.com>, kludge at panix.com (Scott
>Dorsey) writes: 
>
>> Get a drive image as soon as possible.  You can do it on the Alpha, you
>> can pull it off and put it on a PC with Clonezilla or with dd, although
>> the best thing to do is to drop it into one of the offline disk duplicators.
>
>Would forming a shadow set be slower than an offline disk duplicator?

That's a good question.

Just about everything is slower than the offline disk duplicator.  It usually
copies a disk in a good bit less time than doing a dd on the computer, but
to be honest I have no idea why.  I don't know how fast the shadow set
rebuilds, either.  I would be surprised if it rebuilt as fast as a direct
volume copy but I never timed it or watched the operations.
--scott

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