gcook@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Gordon Cook) (06/05/91)
I have a BACKUP saveset written on a 9-track tape on VMS version 4.7. I would like to be able to read the files on SunOs 4.0.3. Most of the individual files are fixed-length ascii files. If anyone has done this or, better still, knows of a utility to do this, please let me know. -- Gordon J. Cook "I'd rather be reading Vogon poetry." Internet: gcook@credit.erin.utoronto.ca Bitnet: gcook@UTORGPU
mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse) (06/06/91)
In article <1991Jun4.191701.6267@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>, gcook@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Gordon Cook) writes: > I have a BACKUP saveset written on a 9-track tape on VMS version 4.7. > I would like to be able to read the files on SunOs 4.0.3. Most of > the individual files are fixed-length ascii files. > If anyone has done this or, better still, knows of a utility to do > this, please let me know. There is a program, called (surprise!) vmsbackup, which is advertised as being capable of reading VMS backup tapes on UNIX. In my experience (which is not that extensive, but I have needed to do this a few times) it works. The README I have is dated 1987 and says This progam reads a VMS backuptape. The tape program is orginally written by John Douglas Carey and the pattern matching routine by some unknown on the net. The remote tape option use the rmtlib from mod.sources. A good way to archive remotetape access for users with only a local account is to create a "netwide" user tar and let the remote tape programs do suid to user tar. The program is tested on vax and sun. Sven-Ove Westberg Lulea University of Technology S-951 87 Lulea, Sweden UUCP: sow@luthcad.UUCP UUCP: {decvax,philabs,seismo}!mcvax!enea!luthcad!sow I don't know where to obtain it; if I wanted a fresh copy I'd ask archie where to get it from. der Mouse old: mcgill-vision!mouse new: mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu