Summary: Hello: We have a DEC Alpha Server 400 running Open VMS ver.6.2-1H3. The old tape drive has died, and I've located a SONY SDT-S 10000 (PCBacker)that w...
Summary: Hi Guys, I'm having problems doing a monthly backup on an openvms system, however the weekly backups are doing fine. I use hp dds-2 tapes, when I do ...
Summary: Hi I get the following message when I do a image-copy from disk to tape (compressed) "Say Warn, F$Time(), " - ", "Backup $1$DRA5 has status LOCKOUT" ...
Summary: Hello, I am about to install a backup library and its tape drive under VMS 7.3. Drive are LTO Ultrium from IBM. They are connected on a Fibre channel...
Summary: I need some clarification in system backups … Plz clarify my doubts .. How to take the whole system disk backup into tape., and how to restor...
Summary: Read the comment at top of tapecopy.mar: ; input tape must be mounted: ; ; $ MOUNT/FOREIGN tapename: "" TAPECOPY$INPUT ; ; output tape must be mounte...
Summary: use BACKUP/LIS MKA500:*.bck to get a list of the tape (MKA500: may differ, replace is by the device name of the drive) At the top of the listing you w...
Summary: I am new to VMS, have taken one training class, and now have an Alpha box to work with. It has a SCSI DLT tape drive attached, but I cannot determine...
Summary: Hi. I need to create a job that runs each monday and I need to setup a command procedure that searches the tape datadase for tapes that were allocated...
Summary: We have a MicroVAX II on which the hard drive died and we had to replace it. [ background: This machine is connected to an X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) mac...
Summary: Hi! I need to know if it is possible to open Backup files created in OpenVMS under windows? The file extentions are bck. I'm just a shadow of my forme...
Summary: Hi, I am looking to install an external DAT tape drive to my Alpha 4000 server. Given I find the correct drive and cabeling..what has to be done to g...
Summary: Hi all my harddisk on vax station with open vms ver 5.5 damaged I've mka500 tape drive and a backup copy of the operating system on the tape How can I...
Summary: Greetings, I was wondering if anyone could help me out on copying a tape on Open VMS. I received two tapes that I must duplicate but I don't know if ...
Summary: A friend of mine is right now writing an improved manual on the backup utility for use within our company. He recently requested my help with one part...
Summary: I have been trying to find a cross-compatibility list of drives which equates manufacturers' products with Digital's part numbers (because third par...
Summary: Hi, I am trying to restore a server from tape using the backup command but i do not know the save set name, is there any way i can find this from the ...
Summary: hesham, to restore you system you will do a BACKUP/IMAGE name_of_your_save_set.bck name_of_your_device: the command should be something like BAKCUP/I...
Summary: One of my hard drives recently crashed and I am attempting to restore an image backup from tape. I have mounted (/foreign) both the tape and the new h...
Summary: I'am using Alphastation 255 for process control . It comes with a 4.3 GB harddisk which is now making terrible noise after many years of operation . I...
Summary: I need information on types of operating systems such as OS/390/1.3 and AS/400. I also need informations on Silos and tape manager management and vau...
Summary: Hello, i'm new to DCL and writing a program that will return the status of a completed disk after its backup. An example of a disk would be "sysbak...
Summary: I present the new version 2.2-6 of my freeware open source program VTfm which is a Norton Commander-style file manager for OpenVMS and VT-compatible t...
Summary: Found the proper command. It seems that when VMS creates the private/public key, the public key is not encrypted the way Linux/Unix encrypts its pub...