I am trying to recover some backups from two old 9-track tapes. They were created ~1980 under RSTS/E version 6.
I have VMS 7.3 on a MicroVAX II and a functional TU80 tape drive. Both systems are fully functional so it is not a "Jurassic computing" hardware issue.
I have tried several strategies including BACKUP and EXCHANGE, but is is "no go" so far. The tape density is unknown, but likely 800 or 1600 given the age of the tapes.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Kevin
Might need RSX and FLX ? (File-explorer?)
If the mount/over=if worked, then it may have been ansi formatted no? Could it be a nameless file that you can grab with a straight copy? I may well be all wrong on this. $COPY MT: test.dat
$ Mount/foreign and DUMP to see what's out there with headers and tape-marks and so on?
There are free-ware tape-copy tools out there that can get raw block on disks for analysis. And I believe the latest LD has a virtual magtape driver as well allowing one to interpret a disk file as tape and visa versa?
Good luck! Hein