> On Thu, 2 May 2002, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> > ...I'm not so worried about the VMS BACKUP tapes I need to
> > spin off - I want one saveset per file. If I want to dup any install
> > tapes (non-VAX), the blocking becomes more critical.
Because blocking has come up over and over again on this thread, I
thought I should share the cause of my concern and the instigation
of that comment... I am fairly certain that when I was playing with
2BSD 10+ years ago, I had to go through some gyrations to duplicate
the install tapes because it uses two block sizes, depending on
the file and what program consumes the file (there's a boot file, a
cat utility, a readme file, a disk format program, a restore utility
and a saveset)
Just capturing the contents of the tape with dd, gives me the data,
no question about that. What I won't be able to do, though, is to
build a bootable, installable tape if all I have are the resulting files.
i.e. - I'll have the data but not the meta-data.
In any case, thanks for all the suggestions. I'll be looking for
the software mentioned in this thread.
-ethan
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Received on Fri May 03 2002 - 15:27:06 BST