vax/vms file archival ideas and suggestions

[Richard]

In article <a06230902c15d8d43781e@[131.215.234.40]>,
    "John A. Dundas III" <dundas at caltech.edu>  writes:

> If on the other hand the files are more important (than being able to 
> recreate the tape exactly), [...]

What would require an exact tape image, as opposed to files and their
contents?
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