2 Sep
2000
2 Sep
'00
6:53 a.m.
ajp166 wrote:
The *nix dd tool is a universal screwwrenchdriverhammer! ;)
Yup ;-)
I had once for a while a system with three drives. One Nt to work on,
the second was the backup disk, and on the third, there was a **ix to do
the backup via dd.
Worked nice until I noticed, that it is much simpler to put all my data
on a **ix system, and have only the NT OS(?) on the drive. Everything
else is on the FileSever.
Takes me now only few hours, to get a working system on a fresh hardrive
again.
Why VMS backup is better. I can take an image copy of
any disk
so long as its smaller than the target volume and replicate all of
the structures and files. For example a copy of VMS5.4-3 on RD54
(MFM 160mb) to a CMD interfaced RZ56 (680mb scsi). and have
a fully useful bootable disk that was not truncated. Or I can do
that through an intermediate set of TK50 tapes. This was handy
as I needed to install VMS once and I could copy it to N-many
systems exactly as created. Maybe this works as there are a
common set of standards. This is clearly lacking in the PC
realm(non *nix based).
There is probably a difference between a serious OS, and this random
collection of bits, coming from redmond. ;-)
But no intention to start a flame war ...
cheers