And your average 3rd party backup software will also have this feature
for its own product.
Too bad USB ports never made to the HP3000, we could have had a lot of
fun there with thumb drives as User Volumes or as other storage media.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Dave Eglington
> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 12:05 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] newbie question -storing a file from
> tape to disk -
>
> I think what Michael is looking for is Allegro's TapeCopy program:
>
> TAPECOPY copies a single reel STORE tape to disk as a
> STORE-to-disk file, and vice versa.
> (from www.allegro.com - downloads section)
>
> You could use this utility to copy an image of your store
> tape to disc (as a single file). Then to do a restore, you
> would use MPE's Restore command using the STD (Store to Disc)
> functionality. There are some limitations to TapeCopy - see
> the site for details.
>
> dave
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johnson, Tracy [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 8:54 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] newbie question -storing a file from
> tape to disk -
>
> I see a need there. We typically store directly to disk (albeit
> directly) frequently, then copy them to tape later. After
> copying them to tape we purge them. Some disc backup files
> have periodic purge times, Some are purged daily, some after
> 6 months, some after a year.
> (O.K. I have a lot of disc space to play with.)
>
> But after purging, I may want to put it back.
>
> A working example would be frequent Restores from the Disc
> file. Say on a test environment. Every time I crap out my
> test data, I'd rather restore
> (refresh) from disc than tape.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of MICHAEL CAPLIN
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 11:46 AM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] newbie question -storing a file
> from tape to
> > disk -
> >
> > That doesn't make sense, what are you trying to accomplish
> >
> >
> > >>> mag <[log in to unmask]> 3/4/2008 11:27 AM >>>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a tape that I'd like to store to a disk file. I
> don't want to
> > actually restore the files to the system, I only want to kind of
> > create an image of the file on disk. How do I do that?
> >
> > thanks
> >
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