VAX/VMS disk cloning

From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh_at_aracnet.com>
Date: Thu Feb 17 17:18:31 2005

> For you VAX/VMS guys...
>
> Is there a graceful VMS (version is not yet unknown, but guessed to be
> roughly 4.5) way to clone a hard disk in the manner of the UNIX dd
> utility?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Darren Peterson

Unfortunatly the only system I've ever had running that old of a version had
the disk die before I could think about backing it up (it booted once). I
clone disks on my modern systems using BACKUP. You'll want to boot from a
stand alone backup tape and hopefully you can do the following:

BACKUP/IMAGE/VERIFY/NOINITIALIZE from: to:

At least I assume this will work in V4.x, but I don't have any doc's handy,
as they're all buried in storage.

                Zane
Received on Thu Feb 17 2005 - 17:18:31 GMT