Re: [PLUG] Restoring MS Backup QIC and BKF files via Samba?

2023-11-09 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
, 2023 12:02 PM To: Portland Linux/Unix Group Subject: [PLUG] Restoring MS Backup QIC and BKF files via Samba? I think I have mentioned, either here or certainly at PLUG social gatherings, that I'm currently working on organizing ancient backups. I restored a bunch of 4mm DDS1 and DDS3 tapes

Re: [PLUG] Restoring MS Backup QIC and BKF files via Samba?

2023-11-08 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Wed, 8 Nov 2023, Ben Koenig wrote: What you may want to try is setting up your old windows OS with multiple virtual disks. C:\ for the os, then a D:\ that can hold the backup files. Some of the virtual disk formats used by qemu can be mounted directly. So you copy the data over via the

Re: [PLUG] Restoring MS Backup QIC and BKF files via Samba?

2023-11-08 Thread Ben Koenig
On Wednesday, November 8th, 2023 at 12:02 PM, Russell Senior wrote: > I think I have mentioned, either here or certainly at PLUG social > gatherings, that I'm currently working on organizing ancient backups. I > restored a bunch of 4mm DDS1 and DDS3 tapes and am currently working on > DC600A

[PLUG] Restoring MS Backup QIC and BKF files via Samba?

2023-11-08 Thread Russell Senior
I think I have mentioned, either here or certainly at PLUG social gatherings, that I'm currently working on organizing ancient backups. I restored a bunch of 4mm DDS1 and DDS3 tapes and am currently working on DC600A tapes (QIC24 format, ~60MB per cartridge). The latter date from 1992-1993 and