OK, just my ignorance of TOPS-20. That sounds like what was called a saveset on the vax. "dump" to me implies saving a disk image block-for-block. Thanks, my curiosity is satisfied. Ed
On 11/29/2014 10:57 PM, Mark Abene wrote:
I use DUMPER all the time in TOPS-20 to back up to a tape image file in linux. I regularly back up user directories, in case I need to restore a particular file or directory on the fly. You can't do that if you're making a copy of the entire disk image in the host OS. -Mark On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Edward Berry <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: ... Say simh running on unix dumps the image of one of its (simulated) disks to a (simulated) tape. the tape image is then saved (via unix commands) for future restoration of the disk. (this wouldn't make much sense, because you could just save the disk image) ...
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