Trying to recover data from a vdump when the last Alpha has retired

From: Charles Knox <knox_at_grendel.astr.cwru.edu>
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:50:59 -0500

Hi all,
    I have had a request to try to read some old data from a backup made
with vdump on a Digital Unix 4.0f machine some time ago. Just a few months
ago, my last alpha died of a power supply failure. I don't currently have
one available. Does anyone know of a way to read a data file (from disk,
the tape can be dd'ed to a disk file) that vdump wrote?

Thanks for any suggestions,
Charley Knox
Dept. of Astronomy
Case Western Reserve University
Received on Fri Mar 06 2009 - 21:52:20 NZDT