7 Dec
2025
7 Dec
'25
3:43 p.m.
Can you take the disk out and back it up on some other system?
I’ve heard that taking apart a tk tape is problematic. I think bands stretch or break?
Is the tape dirty or is the binder coming off?
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On Dec 7, 2025, at 13:27, Antonio Carlini via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 07/12/2025 20:27, Peter Ekstrom via cctalk wrote:
I managed to reset the system password so now I
can login as well. It runs
pretty well.
I tried to make a tape backup of what's on the disk but it seems all my
tapes dirty-up
the head of the tape drive. Anyone know of a way to clean an actual tape?
Pull all the
tape out and wipe it with a dry cloth?
One option would be to create a SIMH VMS host, configure it to be in a cluster, configure
your real HW uV3100 to be a satellite node (booting off a root on the SIMH host system
disk), boot the uV3100 into the cluster, mount the uV3100 disk and back it up with BACKUP.
That might be easier and quicker than cleaning a tape.
Antonio
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