fun with Standalone Backup

From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_mcmanis.com>
Date: Sat Jun 30 23:04:46 2001

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) _at_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.

On an unrelated note, I've got a Dataram MS650 board (MicroVAX III memory)
and when it is installed it takes a _longish_ time to past the
initialzation tests and standalone backup appears to hang when run. Has
anyone seen this? Is this perhaps a bad memory chip that is being
constantly repaired by the ECC logic...

--Chuck
Received on Sat Jun 30 2001 - 23:04:46 BST

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