Another thought is to get another disk and do disk to disk backup. Sent from my iPhone
> On Dec 7, 2025, at 13:43, Wayne S <[email protected]> wrote: > > Can you take the disk out and back it up on some other system? > > I’ve heard that taking apart a tk tape is problematic. I think bands stretch > or break? > > Is the tape dirty or is the binder coming off? > > Sent from my iPhone > >>> On Dec 7, 2025, at 13:27, Antonio Carlini via cctalk >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On 07/12/2025 20:27, Peter Ekstrom via cctalk wrote: >>> I managed to reset the system password so now I can login as well. It runs >>> pretty well. >>> I tried to make a tape backup of what's on the disk but it seems all my >>> tapes dirty-up >>> the head of the tape drive. Anyone know of a way to clean an actual tape? >>> Pull all the >>> tape out and wipe it with a dry cloth? >> >> One option would be to create a SIMH VMS host, configure it to be in a >> cluster, configure your real HW uV3100 to be a satellite node (booting off a >> root on the SIMH host system disk), boot the uV3100 into the cluster, mount >> the uV3100 disk and back it up with BACKUP. >> >> That might be easier and quicker than cleaning a tape. >> >> >> Antonio >> >> >> -- >> Antonio Carlini >> [email protected] >>
