9 Mar
2016
9 Mar
'16
9:48 a.m.
On 08/03/16 23:21, Peter Coghlan wrote:
>
> Savesets produced using VMS BACKUP are the ideal way to archive your VMS system.
> They will save everything you need in a format which can be restored onto any
> disk big enough to hold the data, selectively if necessary, while dealing with
> any errors on the input or output media. BACKUP can be run standalone or under
> VMS.
Ideally you would use standalone backup. With most systems you would
backup to tape or to another disk.
Or you would boot into a cluster (i.e. boot off something other than
your system disk) and backup that
way.
I doubt that either of those is viable on a VAX-11/730. You can't easily
hook up a second disk and
I'm almost certain that a network boot is not possible. I don't think
that you could connect a VAX-11/730 to
a CI-cluster, and even if you could, you are not likely to have the kit
available.
If you have a tape drive, you could use standalone backup to backup to
tape and then shift that to another
system (or SIMH) and preserve the saveset that way.
I remember having the same issue as a system manager on a VAX-11/750.
There was no network boot, so the
only option was to use SABKP and a spare disk.
Antonio