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THanks
Scott Sands

Quote:> Can someone point me to a program to
> read 8mm tapes made with the vms
> program "backup" on a unix box.

> THanks
> Scott Sands

        ftp://flash.acornsw.com/
        gohper://gopher.acornsw.com/
        http://www.acornsw.com/

To see what you can find.
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The following article decribes one product for AIX. Contact the vendor
to see if they have a version for your dialect of unix.

--Jerry,

 Dynamic Matrix Control Corporation                (my opinions are my own)
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix

Subject: Re: VMS Backup

Organization: Boston Business Computing, Ltd.

Date: Wed, 4 Jan 1995 14:36:35 GMT
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available for qualified institutions.
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Boston Business Computing         the real can be."

vmsbackup:

   vmsbackup reads a VMS generated backup tape, converting the files to
   Unix format and writing the files to disk. Reported by the README
   file to run on Ultrix/VAX and Sun. I have a copy running on
   Ultrix/RISC. I also have an mx'd version running on OSF/1.

   Available via anonymous ftp from:

   Host cs.tut.fi

       Location: /pub/src/tape-readers
         DIRECTORY drwxrwxr-x        512  Oct 24 1993  vmsbackup

   Host emx.cc.utexas.edu

       Location: /pub/mnt/source/util
         DIRECTORY drwxr-xr-x        512  Dec 11 1992  vmsbackup

   Host ftp.cc.utexas.edu

       Location: /source/util
         DIRECTORY drwxr-xr-x        512  May 21 1994  vmsbackup

Vbackup:

   A commercial product by Boston Business Computing, Ltd.  According to
   BBC, this product allows you to read and write to VMS save sets on
   your OSF/1 platform.  It is also available on most UNIX platforms.

   In addition, Vbackup performs a full system backup in normal
   multi-user mode.  It stores files portably across VMS and UNIX and
   accesses network tape and disk devices as well as reconstrucing data
   from corrupted media. Vbackup provides a common interface for users
   who are familiar with VMS backup.

   If you would like to receive more information on Vbackup, contact

   [Note: I have no association with Boston Business Computing, Ltd.]
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                 http://www.public.iastate.edu/~rod/

: Vbackup:

:    According to
:    BBC, this product allows you to read and write to VMS save sets on
:    your OSF/1 platform.  It is also available on most UNIX platforms.

Just to clarify: it's free if you have OSF/1, and available for a fee on other
platforms.

:    as well as reconstrucing data
:    from corrupted media.

For restoring VMS save sets on UNIX, this is probably the most important
distinction between vmsbackup and Vbackup.

vmsbackup sometimes has problems with VMS BACKUP error recovery mechanisms and
can halt on or silently restore corrupted data.  Vbackup never restores
corrupted data without issuing a warning message, and in most cases completely
recovers corrupted data to its original form.

Nick

(Boston Business Computing, Ltd.)