carl@CITHEX.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick) (11/15/87)
Some time ago there was a question in this teleconference regarding the
possibility of booting STANDALONE BACKUP from the hard disk of a VAX that has
only one such device, and then doing a restore to said disk. In particular,
managers of VAX 11/750's wanted to avoid the interminable wait for the system
to boot from a TU58. More recently, I've talked to at least two people who
were trying to solve the problem, one by trying to figure out a way to get the
system to boot from a 9-trak tape, the other by trying to make use of PDDRIVER
and a tape image stored on disk. Well, I'm just getting ready to upgrade my
system to VMS 4.6, and noticed the following in the release notes:
Backup Utility
Standalone BACKUP has been made to lock down its working set so that
the booted disk can be removed where two MB or more of memory are
available. This also means that the disk from which standalone BACKUP
was booted can be the target of a restore operation. Under standalone
BACKUP, the prompt delivered at the completion of an operation has
also been altered to more fully inform the user of the options
available.
Just thought I'd try to let those people who've been trying to fix the problem
themselves know that DEC claims to have done so in VMS 4.6.