> > I have a Rainbow 100+ with a working hard disk. I want to image the disk > before it fails and then emulate the Rainbow. The disk is an RD51 and > appears to have 4 partitions on it. > > For imaging my first thought is to put the disk into a MicroVAX II, net boot > the MicroVAX into VMS and do a BACKUP/PHYSICAL, copying the image to a SIMH > tap file. There shouldn't be any issues with this I assume? >
I believe there are tools for dealing with BACKUP/IMAGE savesets on other platforms but I'm not sure whether they cope with savesets from BACKUP/PHYSICAL. You might have to restore the saveset using VMS running on SIMH onto an RD51 emulated by SIMH, assuming such a thing exists. From there, it should be easier to change it into an image suitable for another emulator if necessary. Regards, Peter Coghlan.
