On 06/16/2017 09:04 AM, Ed Thierbach via cctalk wrote: > BACKUP/IMAGE might work. I have a dim recollection of moving system drives > around that way, but it's been a few decades. :-)
I have cloned drives that way for VMS systems. Backup/image is the tool for that. Allison > Best of luck, and let us know how it goes. > -Ed- > > On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 8:46 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > >>> On Jun 16, 2017, at 3:00 AM, Chris Hanson via cctalk < >> cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: >>> On Jun 15, 2017, at 11:30 PM, Rob Jarratt via cctalk < >> cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: >>>> Is there a dd equivalent for VMS? >>> I’m pretty sure PIP is the “dd” equivalent on DEC operating systems in >> general. >> >> No, "pip" is a file manipulation program, which -- depending on OS -- >> provides as command options the analog of Unix commands cat, cp, mv, ls, >> etc. >> >> If you mean "dd" as a partial file copying program, that's something I >> haven't seen on DEC OSs. For image copying (non-file-structured copying), >> it may be that pip can do that but often it won't because it only does file >> structured operations in many systems. On VMS (and some other systems) >> there may be something like "copy/image" which may work. Support for raw >> block access of file devices varies, though; it depends on whether the OS >> allows such a thing. To pick one example, RSTS originally did not allow >> that; it was added part way through the OS history. >> >> paul >> >> >>
