30 Jun
2001
30 Jun
'01
4:24 p.m.
So a bit of additional 'lore' which is
probably obvious to a zillion VMS
admins but was news to me. One can create a standalone backup tape that is
both bootable into standalone backup, and has the system image on it. I did
it as follows:
1) INIT the tape with label SYSTEM
2) @SYS$SYSTEM:STABACKIT
Select MUA0 as the device
Tell it _not_ to re-initialize.
3) Now boot this tape and at the prompt use
BACKUP/IMAGE/VERIFY DUA0: MUA0:MYBACKUP.B/SAVE/LABEL=SYSTEM
Now go away for a while :-)
Once its done you can boot the tape and restore with
BACKUP/IMAGE/VERIFY MUA0:MYBACKUP.B/SAVE/LABEL=SYSTEM DUA0:
This saves me from having to change tapes in the process.
Yes, this is fairly common. I also like to keep a SA BACKUP set
on a couple of my non-system drives.
--
Eric Dittman
dittman(a)dittman.net