Looking for pointers to specs...

From: Huw Davies <Huw.Davies_at_kerberos.davies.net.au>
Date: Sun Dec 15 07:07:01 2002

At 12:57 AM 15/12/2002 -0500, Megan wrote:

>Can anyone point me to a description of the file format for a
>VMS backup file? I need to be able to read one on a unix (linux)
>system, but 'vmsbackup' doesn't recognize the contents of one of
>the vbn's and ends up core-dumping...
>
>(alternatively, is there a version of vmsbackup or something which
>can read full vms backups)

 From an increasingly rusty memory, I think that the Backup format
was last documented in the V3 VMS documentation kit (it might have
been V4 - it's been a long time). Having said that, I don't have a
copy but someone out there might be able to get it to you.

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