Making images of drives on a VAXserver 3100

From: jwb_at_paravolve.net <(jwb_at_paravolve.net)>
Date: Mon Mar 17 13:33:00 2003

Nothing really I suppose... I'm just more of a BSD person (VMS is a new
challange) and this seemed like the easiest/quickest/safest way to snapshot the
disks as they currently are.

-jwb


Quoting emanuel stiebler <emu_at_ecubics.com>:

> What's wrong with BACKUP ?
>
> James W. Brinkerhoff wrote:
> > I have a VAXserver 3100 that I'd like to backup via images of it's 3
> drives.
>
> Right now I have it netbooting NetBSD and I can do a dd if=/dev/sd0c
> of=sd0c.bak bs=8100,
>
> but I am unsure if this is the best way.
>
> Anyone have any better suggestions?
>
> The disks in question currently contain an install of OpenVMS 7.X
> >
> > -jwb
> >
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Received on Mon Mar 17 2003 - 13:33:00 GMT