[Info-vax] Compressed backup summary information retrieval

[hb]

On 7/14/22 18:51, Rich Jordan wrote:
> On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 3:55:14 AM UTC-5, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>> In article <taoflk$2l9tb$1... at dont-email.me>, Chris Townley
>> <ne... at cct-net.co.uk> writes:
>>
>>> I think NLA0: was OK in certain circumstances. Under VMS 6 we used the
>>> following to delete the contents of large directories:
>>>
>>> $ backup/delete/nolog/ignore=nobackup 'P1':*.*;* /excl=.dir nla0:x.x/save
>> It's OK if it includes a file spec as well.
> 
> 
> Found an ugly but efficient and workable workaround for pulling the info from a compressed saveset using a pipe.  I know a backup command qualifier to display just the summary of a backup saveset has been asked about for decades so not expecting any improvements (and the system I'm working on is still HP VMS for a few more months at least).

For uncompressed and unencrypted backups, you may want to have a look at 
http://vms2linux.de/bcksum.html. Not perfect but maybe useful. Yes, it's 
more than 7 years old and not tested on recent VMS, Windows or Linux 
versions. Bug reports are welcome, including requests for newer 
versions, platforms.