Re: Backup & NFS
From: JOUKJ (joukj_at_hrem.stm.tudelft.nl)
Date: 10/08/04
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Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 16:50:46 +0200
Michael Austin wrote:
> Uli Bellgardt wrote:
>
>>> Note that only the BACKUP command on VMS has problems
>>> if I do a "set def" on the same VMS system to the directory I just
>>> can read the contents
>>>
>>
>>
>> Some weeks ago I had exactly the same problem. I could $DIR, $TYPE, $COPY
>> all files on a NFS drive, but I could not $BACKUP a directory tree from
>> that NFS drive to another disk, I saw the same error message. My
>> personal (and, of course, possibly wrong) conclusion was that $BACKUP
>> has its own ideas about
>> what a disk must look like, and that an NFS drive does not fall into
>> that category.
>>
>> Since I needed the data and not a general solution, the quickest
>> solution for
>> me was to write a little DCL procedure which copies an entire
>> directory tree
>> to another disk. Other tools that can do the same task are certainly
>> available,
>> but I do not have them handy. Contact me off-line if you like to have my
>> DCL procedure for copying directory trees.
>>
>> -Uli
>
>
> have you tried using VMSTAR (tar for VMS located on the freeware
> disks?) you could always VMSTAR it instead of backup. Then zip the tar
> and write it to tape using BACKUP. Not very clean, but should work.
> And if you are really creative, you might be able to use PIPE instead of
> having to mess with "intermediate" files.
>
> Michael Austin.
>
Not a real option. I'm backing up to tape and have not the space to
place the files somewhere else. Some files (i.e. temporary CD.iso used
for burning) I set to NOBACKUP, which vmstar does not understand.
Jouk
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