[Info-vax] VMS to VMS data copy options/performance when losing a DECnet link

[Bob Gezelter]

On Friday, April 8, 2022 at 11:33:45 PM UTC-4, Steven Schweda wrote:
> > [...] OpenVMS ZIP/UNZIP can preserve file attributes without problem. 
> 
> They can do it _with_ problems, too. There have been bugs, and there 
> are unsupported file-system features which BACKUP handles better. 
> 
> help set file /enter 
> 
> Also, idiosyncratic names like "a^.b." might get altered. 
> Everything's complicated.
Steve,

Quite. Which is my preferred solution is to do a BACKUP to a saveset and then ZIP/UNZIP the saveset.

- Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com