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

[Craig A. Berry]

On 10/24/20 4:54 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <rn1qo9$oms$2 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
> <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
> 
>>> Would forming a shadow set be slower than an offline disk duplicator?
>>>
>>
>> Will forming a shadow set cause random I/O all over the failing
>> disk or will the disk be read exactly once from start to finish
>> in strict sequential order without any additional I/Os ?
> 
> There are shadowing experts here who might reply.  

And they've already said, "Don't do that!"  BACKUP/PHYSICAL will be safer.