Megan Gentry wrote: I don't think there is any more need too bother with this train of thought. Thanks to the tips that Jerome gave this morning on how to create that dump, I was able to inspect the first 20 or so blocks, and I think I can safely say that the disk is a lost cause. Blocks 0-?? are totally toasted. I don't know how I managed it, but apparently I did something that caused the SYSGEN to write to there last night, it's got a binary image where there should be a directory structure. Sounds like the next time I try something like that I'd best turn the LA75 on as a console printer first so I can analyze what I did wrong :^/ Thanks to your pointing out that the backup command is backup (Um, that was just a little to obvious) I'm now backing DU3: up, since I've got part of what was on DU2: on it. However, that still leaves me with a logical disk MACRO.DSK that I would like to recreate. With the directory toast, I guess that isn't easy. So..... Could someone check me on this and tell me if either of these makes sense. 1. backup/device du2: mu0: <- copy the device to TK50 2. read back the raw image on the VAX (not sure how to do this) OR 1. dump DU2: to a file from RSX-11M (not sure how, but have the manuals) 2. copy to VAX via DECnet 3. Copy to Linux Box via DECnet 4. Carve text out of disk image, thereby recovering the few Macro-11 files I care about. (what can I say, I'm a lot better at doing stuff under UNIX) Cool, the backup just completed, and I was able to restore a file from it, so I know that works now. Zane | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Adminstrator | | healyzh(a)aracnet.com (primary) | Linux Enthusiast | | healyzh(a)holonet.net (alternate) | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.dragonfire.net/~healyzh/ |