noob: transferring files between TOPS10 and Win11 for backup/restore

[Peter Fall]

Hi Team,

I have SN 803 - but am yet to assemble it.

In the meantime, I've spun up the Pi and have started getting familiar with Macro-10 under TOPS10.

Im connecting via telnet from my laptop to TOPS10 and writing the ASM code under TOPS10.

I'd like to be able to backup my code.

Is there a way to create archive files (like tar, zip, or another format) on TOPS10 and transfer these to the Pi OS and then to my laptop?  And back again?

Thanks for your help

Cheers,

Peter

[Matthew Hume]

Hi Peter,

For a somewhat canonical solution you could use Kermit for individual files. The other solution would be to use Backup to save files/directories to a tape image. You can back up files, directories, or a whole system like this if you want, and restoring from backup is quite easy. 

There are also utilities out there for dumping tape images to modern filesysyems.

Matt

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[Noah Smith]

hi peter - was in a somewhat similar situation about a year ago - at first, kermit was the answer - rolled along well enough with it till a few months ago - here's notes 

https://github.com/drforbin/decwar/blob/master/utexas/docs/sec2-kermit.md 

and there's a whole surrounding 'junk mountain' of related stuff there in that docs folder. these days, am happy writing files to a 'tape' and then reading the tape in tops10 - at least for the standard decwar workflow, it works great:)

cheers,

noah

[Peter Fall]

Thanks a heap guys