ray@vantage.UUCP (Ray Liere) (11/29/89)
Re: Thanks and Results Summary (full disk backup)(mystery box)
Thanks to those who responded to my 2 recent queries, regarding
full disk backup (including non-file portions of HPUX) and use of
a data-capturing mystery box.
Summary of results:
Re: full backup ...
Most people felt that the imapge backup was reliable (very reliable, in fact).
And that sounds less likely to result in bullet holes in my feet that trying
to move the non-file area into a file, etc. Probably will make 3 ...
Re: mystery box
this is on a very old HP system (pre-UNIX) at a client site,
and the printers use a non-standard [by today's standards :-) ] interface.
The original posting was vague, as no one had at that time told me much ...
the hope was to capture the data in some manner (tape, etc.) without in
any way disturbing or altering the existing system. I can not report a
solution ... the project has been "reformulated" and as a result my part
of the project has been clearly delineated as coding exactly as if I were
running the existing printer. (Apparently my questions mashed toes ...)
Thanks again to all of you for the assistance.
Ray Liere
Vantage Consulting and Research Corporation
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