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In article <4sudnVtWjffdxCbQnZ2dnUVZ_u6dnZ2d@giganews.com>,
	"Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88@comcast.net> writes:
> On 4/29/2011 9:43 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> I have I question based on what many will see as yet more bad news.
>>
>> The University has just informed us that they are getting ready to
>> retire the last academic VMS machine here at the University (I should
>> say that they are verifying that no one is doing anything critical
>> on it before doing so, but being as no one is doing anything on it,
>> well you can see where this is going).
>>
>> I have stuff I would really like to save before it goes away.  is there
>> an easy way to archive or just plain move all of my stuff including sub-
>> directories?  No, they do not have ZIP/UNZIP on the system.  I have FTP
>> but that doesn't do directories recursively (at least not that I know of).
>> Is there a backup command I could use given that I need to write the
>> archive into the same directory I am archiving (think recursive, infinte
>> tar!!!)
>>
>> Any help appreciated as I have quite a bit of stuff (including a lot of
>> my Ada work) on this machine and would hate to just loose it.
>>
>> bill
>>
> 
> Can you get hold of a working disk drive?  If so, plug it in and start 
> copying your stuff.  When finished, unplug the drive, and take it home!

Not my machine.  There is no way I wold be granted access tot he hardware.
There is no way they would install hardware on it specifically for me.
There is no way they are going to shut down a machine with a potential
8000 users (at least it has that many accounts) to install a disk for
me.

> 
> If you don't have such a drive, ask your employer if you can buy one or 
> two of the drives from your system.  If the answer is negative, look on 
> e-Bay.
> 
> Good luck.
> 
> And welcome to the Society of Former VMS System Managers!
> 
> What did you mean by "infinte tar"?  I will assume that your proof 
> reading was hampered by the tears in your eyes!

Run tar on a directory.  Don't pay attention and out the tarfile in
that directory.  Watch it grow to fill the whole disk as it tries to
put itself into the tar archive. 

bill

-- 
Bill Gunshannon          |  de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n.  Three wolves
billg999@cs.scranton.edu |  and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.
University of Scranton   |
Scranton, Pennsylvania   |         #include <std.disclaimer.h>   

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Re: Saving data billg999@cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) - 2011-04-30 09:55 +0000
  Re: Saving data glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2011-04-30 19:02 +0000
    Re: Saving data koehler@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) - 2011-05-02 09:45 -0500
      Re: Saving data glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2011-05-02 17:37 +0000

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