CLAYTON@XRT.UPENN.EDU ("Clayton, Paul D.") (05/19/88)
Chinson Yi has asked the following question recently: We are running VMS 4.4 on uVAX II with 2 RA81s, and I am thinking of building a bootable area on 2nd RA81. Does anyone have easy of doing this except rebuilding the system on it, and restoring the data onto it. I had to do a similar thing in the past and accomplished it in the following manner. Use the BACKUP command and copy the ENTIRE SYS* directory tree from one disk to the other. If you have a cluster common disk, you might be better off copying everything and /EXCLUDING= the directories that do not go over. The last step was to run WRITEBOOT program and use the defaults, except for the disk unit to Uuse. This gave me a bootable disk, on something other then the normal system disk. Hope this helps. :-) Paul D. Clayton Address - CLAYTON%XRT@CIS.UPENN.EDU