14 Jan
2008
14 Jan
'08
10:43 p.m.
Subject: RE: Backing up VMS
From: "Antonio Carlini" <arcarlini at iee.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:40:27 +0000
To: "'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'" <cctalk
at classiccmp.org>
Dave Dunfield wrote:
Same here. Though I have some TLZ04s that seem to behave well.
Fortunately the 4mm drive seems to be OK - I
wrote a backup tape
Have you managed to restore one yet :-)
My experience of DAT is that after a (short) while they start
to chew tapes. Never had that with DLT: the drive may
break but the tape (for me at least) remains intact. Mind you, I have working RD53s and TK50s so there may
be something
in the water here :-)
Same here but I got the RD53s as "bad" and opened and fixed them.
I also ahve TK50s (on sleds) and the boxed TK50 in both the DEC
sorta scsi flavor.
The good news
is that BACKUP/IMAGE from one SCSI drive to
another worked fine
That's by design rather than luck ... BACKUP/IMAGE is supposed
to do that. If you BACKUP/IMAGE to a saveset instead, then
you'll have a single file that you can FTP somewhere else
for archiving.
Given that 18GB SCSI disks are cheap (== free, usually) and
readily available, I would hook one of those up, initialise it,
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