VAX/VMS disk cloning

From: Adrian Graham <witchy_at_binarydinosaurs.co.uk>
Date: Thu Feb 17 17:21:23 2005

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctalk-bounces_at_classiccmp.org
> [mailto:cctalk-bounces_at_classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of J. Darren Peterson
> Sent: 17 February 2005 15:17
> To: cctech_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: VAX/VMS disk cloning
>
> 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?

Yep, $backup/image will clone the contents and $backup/physical will clone
right down to bit-level. I'm assuming of course that these commands were
available in 4.5, I can't remember! I was just finding my feet with VMS at
that time and image backups of disks weren't a top priority :)

cheers

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Received on Thu Feb 17 2005 - 17:21:23 GMT

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