Original post:
< Stuff deleted to please the natives>
I have been asked to find a way to read in an archive of VMS tapes on a Sun
3/180 ( our only box with a nine track tape drive ) and pump the blob to a
Sparc20 Server. The VMS Dumps contain corporate archives and must be
recovered.
<Stuff deleted to please the natives>
Solution:
Reccomendations for tcopy came thick and heavy. Some votes for structures made
of DD came thru. What I was really looking for was the program named
vmsbackup. Some of you emailed the whole thing here, which was one great help
( no ftp or archie available from this desk ).
vmsbackup' by anonymous ftp from lifshitz.ph.utexas.edu.
>From DD set I have: dd if=/dev/rmt/0mbn of=/tmp/x ibs=8192 obs=8192
Now this solution may evolve into a SCSI tape drive for our SPARC 20. From
all your confidence in the product, it looks like vmsbackup will pull us thru.
Many thanks to those that answered:
From: perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison)
From: John Rosenberg <jcr@bgumby.bwh.harvard.edu>
From: James Guyton <guyton@burton.cs.colorado.edu>
From: Ian MacPhedran <Ian_MacPhedran@dvinci.usask.ca>
From: erp@microplex.com (Edward R. Powell)
From: louie@seismo.unr.edu (John Louie)
From: scowles@pangolin.stanford.edu (S. Cowles)
From: John Valdes <valdes@geosun.uchicago.edu>
From: myers@noether.vassar.edu (Eric Myers)
From: x092306@hyperion.lanl.gov (Jerry Weber CIC-2)
From: mhr@internet.sbi.com (Michael Ringbauer)
From: Simon-Bernard Drolet <droletb@ccg.rncan.gc.ca>
From: Heas <heas@maelstrom.timeplex.com>
From: sunm@erm.oz.au (Brett Newton-Palmer(Sun Admin))
From: rauthenberg@hhi.de (Stefan Rauthenberg)
From: kmumford@esoc.esa.de (Mumford)
From: Mr T Crummey (DIJ) <tom@sees.bangor.ac.uk>
From: Peg Heffron <heffron@mailbox.syr.edu>
link@cfht.hawaii:edu:Xerox
--dan
--------------------------------------------------------------
"Sorry folks - humor and imagination as payback for a kind answer may not
appear here. Flame as you see fit"
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.2 : Fri Sep 28 2001 - 23:10:29 CDT