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From: thierbac@umbc3.UMD.EDU (Ed Thierbach )
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: VMS 4.6 Documentation
Message-ID: <809@umbc3.UMD.EDU>
Date: 23 Feb 88 16:21:18 GMT
References: <8802210507.AA29057@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: thierbac@umbc3.UMD.EDU (Ed Thierbach)
Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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We ran into the '4.6 is archived' problem, too...we had a major snafu with
our software service contract, and by the time it got worked out, 4.6 was
no longer available from Software Distribution.  Our software service rep
made a copy of the 4.6 tapes for us, and a sister site is sending a xerox
of the release notes.  I agree that DEC archived 4.6 entirely too soon! (Are
you listening, DEC?)


Building standalone backup on an RA81 is the same for all VAXen.  Just use
STABACKIT.COM:

     @SYS$UPDATE:STABACKIT device [root]

'device' is the device name of the disk (e.g. DUA0)
'root'   is the name of the system root (e.g. [SYSE]) to use

Note that if you don't specify the root, STABACKIT will use SYSE if you're
building S/A backup on the system disk, and sys0 otherwise.  (At least that's
what I remember it doing...I always specify [SYSE].)

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Ed Thierbach
VAX System Manager
Roy F. Weston, Inc.
thierbac@umbc3.umd.edu