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Subject: DECnet Backups
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Date: Thu, 30-May-85 14:41:48 EDT
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From: Christopher Ho <Chris%ECLD@ECLA>

Since this has come out into the open...

VMS Backup has a number of deficiencies, the greatest of which is
probably its inability to dump to a tape drive on a remote DECnet
system.  Here at USC we've come up with a solution for our backups
to make this work.  It involves 2 DCL .COM files on each system to
be backed up, a .COM file and DECnet object on the system with the
tape drive, and use of BACKUP and CONVERT.

It's not perfect, but it does work and is preferable to '2nd generation'
(ie_ backup -> disk saveset -> tape saveset) backups (which we used to
use).  If individuals on INFO-VAX are interested, they can send me a
message and I can forward our stuff to them.
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