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From: dave@galaxia.zone1.com (David H. Brierley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.org.decus,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Need tape utility to read VMS BACKUP tape on Unix/Ultrix.
Message-ID: <461@galaxia.zone1.com>
Date: 16 Apr 88 04:01:53 GMT
References: <533@zehntel.UUCP>
Reply-To: dave@galaxia.zone1.com (David H. Brierley)
Organization: Dave's Very Own Personal System
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In article <533@zehntel.UUCP> larryg@pinot (Larry Gillespie) writes:
>  A customer sent me a tape which was
>made on VMS 4.6 with the BACKUP command.  I want to read this tape, of course.
>Does anyone know of a utility ...

Normally I would answer a question like this by referring the user to the
comp.sources.unix archives which contain a program for reading VMS backup
tapes under UNIX.  Now that I've answered the question, let me explain why
I posted instead of sending mail.  As gross as it might sound, I am about to
have exactly the opposite problem.  Does anyone know of a utility which
can read a UNIX dump tape on VMS.  For at least the last year we have been
doing all of our full backups on a 6250 bpi tape drive and now we are about
to lose access to this drive.  The only possibility of being able to read
the tapes is a VMS machine across the room which also has a 6250 bpi drive.
Can anybody come to my rescue or am I going to have to port "restore" to VMS?
-- 
David H. Brierley
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