There _is_ a free UNIX prog to read VMSbackup tapes..
I can't remember the name - I used it 5 or 6 years ago on HPUX or
SOLARIS...
Will go dig around.
Luke


-----Original Message-----
From: Johnny Billquist [mailto:bqt@update.uu.se]=20
Sent: Thursday, 4 April 2002 2:49 AM
To: Wojciech Puchar
Cc: port-vax@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: VMS backup


On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Wojciech Puchar wrote:

> i've got tape from someone asking me if i can restore data from it.=20
> it's DDS-1 tape.
>=20
> i found blocksizes (8k) and then restored 6 tape-files total.
>=20
> 3 first were 80 bytes each, then 72MB (which looks like dump) and then

> 2 80-byte files.
>=20
> as this header files has "DECVMSBACKUP" text i think it's backup from=20
> VMS.

[...]

Those small "files" are the normal ANSI tape labels and file headers.
Find any program that reads ANSI tapes, and you'll see a tape containing
only one file, your VMS BACKUP saveset.

> does anybody know program that can extract files from it?
> or format of this dump file?

Under VMS: Use BACKUP. :-)

It might help if you tell what system you want to read this saveset on.
There might be some freeware program that extracts files, but I'm pretty
sure there are some commercial alternatives as well.

	Johnny

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