The major portion of that task would be to hook up a DDS tape drive to 
PC.  (Which involves getting hardware cards and drivers, et. al.)

On 11/13/20 2:37 AM, Stan Sieler wrote:
> I gave Tracy some code to (hopefully) allow him to at least run BACKREST in
> a "list the tape contents" mode on his A-Class.
>
> To actually restore files *with that version* of BACKREST on an MPE/iX
> system would be a significantly difficult task ...
> one that even I would not want to undertake.
>
> Rather, I suggest:
>
>     (using the SIMH simulator)
>
>     - move the tape to Linux / Mac / Windows box (where you're running SIMH
> HP 3000)
>
>     - get BACKREST onto the simulated HP 3000
>
>     - use BACKREST to restore any desired files
>
>     - use STORE to create a STORE 'tape' (in reality, a SIMH format tape
> image)
>
>     - convert the SIMH tape image to a STORE-to-disk format
>
>     - upload the tape image to your A-Class
>
>     - copy the tape image (correctly!) to a real tape
>
>     - use CM RESTORE to restore from the real tape.
>
> Phew!
>
> There are some shortcuts one can take.  For example, if you have Rosetta,
> you could take the SIMH
> format tape image and use Rosetta to restore the files to a local directory
> structure ... if you simply want
> the 'simple' files (e.g., not KSAM files).
>
> Better yet ... look for a tape created by a newer version of BackPack ...
> it *might* have a newer
> version of BACKREST that is MPE/iX compatible.
>
> Stan
>
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