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- From: zrepachol@cc.curtin.edu.au (Paul Repacholi)
- Subject: Re: Backup, VMB and the boot blockDIR/NEW
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.221725.1@cc.curtin.edu.au>
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- Organization: Curtin University of Technology
- References: <1992Aug31.195719.7207@cerritos.edu>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 13:17:25 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug31.195719.7207@cerritos.edu>, tanner@cerritos.edu writes:
- > I have one of those idle questions that I can't answer and just can't forget.
- >
- > In section 30.2.3.3.1 of the I&DS it says that VMB is one of the few files
- > that is located by an absolute LBN (in the boot block) and is not free to be
- > moved on our VAX 6000 system disk without running WRITEBOOT.
- >
- > When a system disk is restored from backup, does BACKUP somehow preserve the
- > LBN of VMB.EXE or does it perform the functions of WRITEBOOT? Obviously it
- > does something, or you couldn't boot from a restored system disk.
- >
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- It writes the LBN into the resored boot block.
-
- > -Bruce
- > --
- > Bruce Tanner (310) 860-2451 x 596 Tanner@Cerritos.EDU
- > Cerritos College Norwalk, CA
-