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Conference stkhlm::magtape

Title:MAGNETIC TAPEDRIVES
Moderator:STKHLM::GJOHNSSON
Created:Mon Sep 21 1987
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:3775
Total number of notes:13147

3636.0. "reading rsts on vms" by SHOGUN::SKOWYRA () Tue Jan 28 1997 19:26

    I have question around reading a RSTS backup tape under vms. I know there
    are txt files on the tapes. Is there a utility under VMS that will
    allow this?
    
                                              Thanks..John S
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3636.1DUMP it.SUBSYS::TRANStraight <Left> Hitter..Tue Jan 28 1997 20:594
    
    Mount/for and use DUMP utility.
    
    T.
3636.2SHOGUN::SKOWYRATue Jan 28 1997 21:575
    That I did, and yes I can read the files. I was trying to get data off
    the tape. O know the tape is written in a rsts backup format..Is there
    such a utility..
    
                                     John
3636.3LEFTY::CWILLIAMSCD or not CD, that's the questionWed Jan 29 1997 02:589
    
    I know of no such utility. That does not mean it does not exist....
    
    Sounds like time to call DECUS...  
    
    Or try the VMS notes file - they may know.
    
    Chris
    
3636.4Which RSTS backup?EVMS::EVERHARTWed Jan 29 1997 18:5416
    It would help to have some idea what RSTS backup utility was used
    to write the tape, or anything else that might shed light on
    the format. Some RSTS backup utilities can be read by VMS backup,
    others might have looked like DOS utilities, others, Lord knows.
    
    A few such tools have been written in the past...old RSTS or RSX
    or even old VAX sig tapes are good places to look...but the name
    of the backup utility used or ANYTHING about it, or even tape
    vintage would help. (If the headers are 14 bytes long it could
    be a DOS format or Rollin format variant, even!).
    
    My online collection of catalog stuff for DECUS doesn't turn up
    anythng directly obvious, but there may be better keywords that
    I'd need.
    glenn