vax/vms file archival ideas and suggestions

[Patrick Finnegan]

On Thursday 19 October 2006 17:13, Richard wrote:
> 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?

Booting an OS tape is one instance....  There are plenty more, for 
example when the block (record) size of the tape is significant for 
delimiting different parts of data.

Pat
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