Jason, My recollection is that VMS Backups save sets written directly to tape use ANSI labelled tape format. That made it possible to VMS COPY a Backup save set from a mounted tape to disk or from disk to a mounted tape. You would not only have to copy the Backups save set files you have on your PC to a SIMH tape file, but you would also have to write the proper ANSI tape labels and tape marks. I think you will find it much easier to create a dedicated SIHM VAX disk to hold your Backup save sets on a volume that is not your boot volume. That way you don't have to mount the volume with the Backup save sets most of the time and they will not use any space on your VAX file system.
Larry Baker US Geological Survey 650-329-5608 [email protected] > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:52:23 -0400 > From: "Armistead, Jason" <[email protected]> > Subject: [Simh] Converting VMS BACKUP saveset file to SIMH tape file > To: <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hi > > I have a number of VMS BACKUP savesets that were created as disk > files on my VAX host, and then FTP-ed in BINARY mode to a PC. > > What's the easiest way to convert them into SIMH magtape files so > that they can be accessed by VMS running within SIMH as tape-based > savesets ? > > I'm trying to avoid having to FTP the savesets into my emulated > VAX's disk filesystem. > > Are there any VMS BACKUP command qualifiers I should use to make the > savesets "more compatible" when they're converted to SIMH magtape > files ? > > Thanks in advance > > Jason > _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
