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From: YATES@C.CHEM.UPENN.EDU ("Yates, John H.")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: vmsbackup problems solved
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Date: 3 Oct 90 01:22:00 GMT
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(Sorry to post this to everyone, but there were too many interested
people to keep track of along the line).

Tony Silva (tsilva%aaec1.uucp@dspvax.mit.edu) solved the vmsbackup
single file restore problem. The trick:

>O.K. I've finally got the answer for extracting selected files. Try
>something like:
>
>	vmsbackup -xvcde '?BIN?ASC2BIN.EXE;1'
 for extracting           [BIN]ASC2BIN.EXE;1
>         ...
          or
>
>	vmsbackup -xvcde '*ASC2BIN.EXE*'

I opted for on our SGI:

vmsbackup -xvf /dev/rmt/xmt0d0.1600 '?JY.TEX?STORY.TEX;1'

and it worked!

btw, on sgi the following if test modification was used in vmsbackup.c
(this got it to work, giving directories and extracting a whole save set).
(also thanks to Tony)

#if defined(sun) || defined(sgi)
#define SWAP
#endif

John
yates@c.chem.upenn.edu

P.S. Now, I hope it can pick up in the middle of the second thru last tapes
     of a save set. Will try tomorrow.