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From: levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.sources.wanted,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Wanted -- VMS BACKUP reader for UNIX systems
Message-ID: <2090@ttrdc.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jan 88 18:25:57 GMT
References: <2089@ttrdc.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T, Skokie, IL
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Ho, hackers!

I'm interested in finding a UNIX program which can read VMS BACKUP tapes
(that is, the files archived therein).  I already have a copy of a UNIX
program which can read Files-11 tapes, but this doesn't gain me anything
with VMS BACKUP tapes except to be able to read in the whole BACKUP
saveset file.  (It doesn't help me to extract the files from a BACKUP
saveset.)  Also, it can't deal with multi-volume backups.

Yes, yes, I know about the VMS TAR programs.  I'm not concerned about how to
get data from VMS to UNIX systems.  What I am concerned about is mountains
of old VMS backups, which may possibly need to have data retrieved from them
even after we have kissed our VMS systems good-bye.

Any ideas?  (I'm not picky as to the kind of hardware or version of UNIX
system this would run on, as I am willing to modify the program as needed.)
Thanks in advance....
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