[comp.unix.wizards] Does anyone know how to read a VMS-Backup tape?

MIKEMAC%UNB.BITNET@cornellc.cit.cornell. (Michael J. MacDonald) (05/17/89)

  I have to read a VAX vms-backup format tape any ideas
  on how to recover file information?


 Michael MacDonald
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mark@bruce.oz (Mark Goodwin) (05/18/89)

From article <19638@adm.BRL.MIL>, by MIKEMAC%UNB.BITNET@cornellc.cit.cornell. (Michael J. MacDonald):
> 
>   I have to read a VAX vms-backup format tape any ideas
>   on how to recover file information?
> 

We have a program named "vmsbackup". It reads VMS backup savesets
onto a Unix machine. Written by John Carey, hacked by numerous
people over the world and quite likely released over usenet at one
time or another.

Mark Goodwin,
Programmer @ Monash Uni. Dept. Comp. Sci.