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- From: terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: Transferring BACKUP savesets via ftp
- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.185351.3689@spcvxb.spc.edu>
- Date: 25 Aug 92 22:53:50 GMT
- Article-I.D.: spcvxb.1992Aug25.185351.3689
- References: <1992Aug25.110548.18149@newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de>
- Organization: St. Peter's College, US
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- In article <1992Aug25.110548.18149@newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de>, dehning@tnt.uni-hannover.de (Oliver Dehning) writes:
- > I tried to get some utilities from ftp.spc.edu using ftp. However, I could
- > not processs the *.BCK files (BACKUP savesets) because they have the wrong
- > file format. How can I convert transferred BACKUP savesets to the right
- > format? CONVERT doesn't work.
-
- The only directories that have uncompressed .BCK savesets are [.FINGER] and
- [.UCX]. Both of these directories have clearly named files (AAA-UCX.README and
- AAAREADME.1ST) which contain instructions for dealing with this. Here's the
- content of AAAREADME.1ST:
-
- These savesets were backed up with blocksize 8192. If you transfer them
- with UCX or another FTP that doesn't understand STRU VMS, you will have to
- change the record size from 512 to 8192 in order to restore the saveset.
-
- If you have Joe Meadows' FILE utility, you can say:
-
- $ FILE saveset.BCK/REC=8192/MAX=8192
-
- If you don't have FILE, then you can use the COPY/OVERLAY command to set
- the proper block size:
-
- $ BACKUP any-old-files FOO.BCK/SAVESET/BLOCK=8192
- $ COPY/OVERLAY saveset.BCK FOO.BCK
- $ RENAME FOO.BCK saveset.BCK
-
- where saveset.BCK is the name of the saveset you retrieved from here, and
- any-old-files are any files (you're just interested in the file structure,
- not the contents).
-
- Terry Kennedy Operations Manager, Academic Computing
- terry@spcvxa.bitnet St. Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ USA
- terry@spcvxa.spc.edu +1 201 915 9381
-