axh@philabs.philips.com (Abid Hussain) (02/15/91)
Hi everyone, Is there any software available which could read VMS backup tapes on a Unix system (BSD 4.3) ? Any help will be appreciated. Thanks, Abid. -- Abid Hussain axh@philabs.philips.com Philips Laboratories - or - (914) 945-6490 {uunet|ihnp4|decvax}!philabs!axh
axh@philabs.philips.com (Abid Hussain) (02/21/91)
I would like to thank everyone who responded to my question regarding availability of some software to read VMS backup tapes on a Unix system. The answers were Yes, there are two such programs available, one is called vmsbackup revision 4.0 (send me mail if you want a copy), and the other one is a commercial package from Boston Business Computing (508-470-0444) called Vbackup. - Abid. -- Abid Hussain axh@philabs.philips.com Philips Laboratories - or - (914) 945-6490 {uunet|ihnp4|decvax}!philabs!axh
bill@casemo.UUCP (Bill Jensen) (05/07/91)
I need to transfer a large number of files from an old VAX/VMS system to our UNIX environment. I have the vmsbackup program from the net, and it works fine, but it lacks one important feature - setting the file date and time to match the VAX modification time. Does any one have a VMS backup reader that can do this? Source code or FTP pointers gratefully accepted! Failing this, can anyone explain to me how the date might be extracted from the backup tape. From the vmsbackup source that I have, I found what looks like the header structure for the backup tape files, 256 bytes long. There do not appear to be any fields in the structure that refer to date or time, but there are 2 fields labled bbh_dol_t_spare_1 and bbh_dol_t_spare_2 sizes 20 and 22 bytes respectively, at offsets 12 and 232 bytes respectively. I suspect that these would contain the time stamps, but I don't know what format they would have. Any information would be appreciated. Bill Jensen Dowty Communications, Inc. Systems Engineer formerly CASE / Datatel Inc. (301)-317-7553 9020 Junction Drive mimsy!casemo!bill Annapolis Junction, MD 20701