As far as I am aware, there is no limit, up to the amount of disk space 
available.  Backup Save Sets are just RMS sequential files with fixed record 
lengths (on disk, usually 32768 bytes, on tape, I think the default is 4096, 
except 2048 for Interchange format).

Larry Baker
US Geological Survey
650-329-5608
[email protected]



> On 25 Jan 2018, at 6:04:01 PM, Zane Healy <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Jan 25, 2018, at 1:39 PM, Larry Baker <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> I agree completely.  DECnet is your friend.  On VMS, it works right out of 
>> the box.  I have never had a need to try rmt.  As I mentioned in an earlier 
>> email, I have built a DECnet FAL-to-NFS gateway using DECnet-Linux.  It 
>> works great for storing Backup Save Sets on an NFS file server.  Once there, 
>> they can be compressed with gzip to save space for long-term archive.
>> 
>> Larry Baker
>> US Geological Survey
>> 650-329-5608
>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> How large of a saveset can you create doing this?  This might work for 
> another use case I’m aware of.
> 
> Zane
> 
> 

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