Itanium VMS Creating Bootable Systen Disk Backup

[Robert Gezelter]

Mike,

With all due respect to Ian, the GPT actually stores a GUID (Globally Unique IDentifier; see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table for details).

- Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com

[Ian Miller.]

What I meant to say was

The GUID of a partition listed in the GPT should be unique. So BACKUP does not replicate a GUID on a restore by restoring the GUID.

The GUID is used in the boot menu entry so the boot menu entry has to be updated after the restore.

Simplest thing may be to boot the restored system not using the menu entry then use SYS$MANAGER:BOOT_OPTIONS.COM to update the entry.

[Robert Gezelter]

Ian,

Concur.

I made the comment about GUID (rather than UID) and inserted the Wikipedia link to make sure that the information was available for future readers of this thread.

- Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com