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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