D'oh! Backup issue solved

From: emanuel stiebler <emu_at_ecubics.com>
Date: Sat Sep 2 13:53:28 2000

ajp166 wrote:
>
> The *nix dd tool is a universal screwwrenchdriverhammer! ;)

Yup ;-)
I had once for a while a system with three drives. One Nt to work on,
the second was the backup disk, and on the third, there was a **ix to do
the backup via dd.

Worked nice until I noticed, that it is much simpler to put all my data
on a **ix system, and have only the NT OS(?) on the drive. Everything
else is on the FileSever.

Takes me now only few hours, to get a working system on a fresh hardrive
again.
 
> Why VMS backup is better. I can take an image copy of any disk
> so long as its smaller than the target volume and replicate all of
> the structures and files. For example a copy of VMS5.4-3 on RD54
> (MFM 160mb) to a CMD interfaced RZ56 (680mb scsi). and have
> a fully useful bootable disk that was not truncated. Or I can do
> that through an intermediate set of TK50 tapes. This was handy
> as I needed to install VMS once and I could copy it to N-many
> systems exactly as created. Maybe this works as there are a
> common set of standards. This is clearly lacking in the PC
> realm(non *nix based).

There is probably a difference between a serious OS, and this random
collection of bits, coming from redmond. ;-)

But no intention to start a flame war ...

cheers
Received on Sat Sep 02 2000 - 13:53:28 BST