Does anyone know where I can get software (share I hope) that can read
VAX VMS backup format tapes?  Various sites come up in a google search
and I have tried to downloaed some, but had no luck getting them to
work.

thanks

In comp.unix.admin JK <ephemerisjazz@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know where I can get software (share I hope) that can read
> VAX VMS backup format tapes?  Various sites come up in a google search
> and I have tried to downloaed some, but had no luck getting them to
> work.

> thanks

I would try "VMSBACKUP"  which according to port description :

    VMSBACKUP reads VMS BACKUP tapes.

    Main features:
        swaps bytes from big-endian to little-endian, if required.
        savesets can be selected individually.
        can preserve directory structure.
        excludes vms specific files (eg executables and objects).
        converts vms version numbering semicolons to colons.


It's avaliable in FreeBSD ports-tree, meaning that it's 
a few key-presses from beeing installed on a FreeBSD system

It seems that it's retreived from :
MASTER_SITES=   ftp://ftp.cs.uni-sb.de/pub/utils/
(if you want to try porting yourself)



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In comp.unix.admin JK <ephemerisjazz@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know where I can get software (share I hope) that can read
> VAX VMS backup format tapes?  Various sites come up in a google search
> and I have tried to downloaed some, but had no luck getting them to
> work.

Check out vmsbackup, it's available at 
http://garbo.uwasa.fi/pub/unix/vmsbackup/ (or via "make install" in 
NetBSD's pkgsrc/wip/vmsbackup directory :).


 - Hubert

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Thank you for the information.   I downloaded "vmsbackup" from both 

   ftp://ftp.cs.uni-sb.de/pub/utils/ 
and
   http://garbo.uwasa.fi/pub/unix/vmsbackup/
which are different versions of the same code. 

It turns out that we don't have a tapedrive that will read the exabyte
8mm tapes so someone will take it to UMD, read it there, and mail (or
ftp) the files (savesets) back to me.  The "vmsbackup" does not
support vms savesets on disk files.  I suppose I can re-write it out
to dlt with dd, or modify "vmsbackup.c" to read a disk file.

thanks
Jonathan

Hubert Feyrer <hubertf@gmx.de> wrote in message news:<c4usuv$2nl4ia$1@ID-180809.news.uni-berlin.de>...
> In comp.unix.admin JK <ephemerisjazz@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Does anyone know where I can get software (share I hope) that can read
> > VAX VMS backup format tapes?  Various sites come up in a google search
> > and I have tried to downloaed some, but had no luck getting them to
> > work.
> 
> Check out vmsbackup, it's available at 
> http://garbo.uwasa.fi/pub/unix/vmsbackup/ (or via "make install" in 
> NetBSD's pkgsrc/wip/vmsbackup directory :).
> 
> 
>  - Hubert