Then I must have misunderstood the usecase. I thought you were looking at
preserving a bunch of tapes from a future failure of the hardware.
Are you then looking at ways to perform backups of a physical system to virtual
tape?
I would probably give the virtual machine a really big disk and run backup to
that remote disk and not try to play with remote tapes.
Johnny
Zane Healy <heal...@avanthar.com> skrev: (26 januari 2018 02:54:20 CET)
>If it was applicable to the situation, then VMSTPC would work great.
>It’s already installed on my Alpha, and I’m pretty sure there is a VAX
>binary for it in the VAX directory on there. I also have it installed
>on my RSX-11M+. It’s definitely a great tool. Just not for this. :-)
>
>Zane
>
>
>> On Jan 25, 2018, at 2:54 PM, Armistead, Jason
><jason.armist...@otis.com> wrote:
>>
>> Zane
>>
>> The program that Johnny is thinking of is VMSPTC
>>
>> http://www.digiater.nl/openvms/decus/vax86a/bnelson/vmstpc/vmstpc.c
>>
>> Note sure if this is the latest, but it came up in the first set of
>Google search results for "VMSTPC"
>>
>> Good luck
>> Jason
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Simh [mailto:simh-boun...@trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of
>Johnny Billquist
>> Sent: Thursday, 25 January 2018 5:48 PM
>> To: Zane Healy; Tim Shoppa
>> Cc: simh@trailing-edge.com
>> Subject: Re: [Simh] VAX Tape Emulation?
>>
>> Zane - unless I remember wrong, there is a tool from DECUS to copy
>tapes to a file image, and then get that back to a tape again. The RSX
>version is called TPC, and I'm pretty sure it also exists for VMS.
>>
>> Using that, pull your physical tapes into files, copy the files over
>to the simulated machines, and write them back out to simulated tapes
>there.
>>
>> Johnny
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