I sent Joe an offline reply, suggesting one
approach, using full & partial backups,
and another approach using some newly purchased disk
drives setup as one or more new user volumes.

However, here's another idea...

(Requires being on MPE/iX 6.0 PP 1)

1) buy a Seagate 36 GB disk drive (ST136403LW, about $1100
   in an external case).

2) configure the Seagate on both the old system and the
   new system.

3) connect the Seagate on the old system

4) volutil/newset the Seagate to be a new volume set, "XFER"

   REMEMBER: VOLUME SET NAMES CAN (AND SHOULD) BE SHORT NAMES!

5) do one (or more) STORE to disk;compress with the target
   disk being the new Seagate drive.

   (Why more than one?  If you have more compressed data
   than will fit into 4 GB, I don't know what STORE-to-disk
   will do ... my suspicion is that it can't handle more
   than 4 GB at a time)

   Example:

       :newgroup xfer.sys
       :newgroup xfer.sys; onvs=XFER
       :altgroup xfer.sys; homevs=XFER

       :file xferA; dev=99   (where 99 is the XFER disk)
       :store /A@ ; *xfera; compress

       :file xferB; dev=99   (where 99 is the XFER disk)
       :store /B@ ; *xferb; compress

       ...

6) when the entire system is backed up onto the XFER disk,
   VSCLOSE it, unplug it (caution: the safest approach is
   to power off your system first.  YMMV)

7) Attach the new disk to the new system (see caution above),
   reboot

8) :newgroup xfer.sys
   :altgroup xfer.sys; homevs=XFER

Obviously, this leaves out interesting things like
setting up UDCs, directory structure, etc.  The point of this
note is to introduce the concept of using a 36 GB
disk drive as a transfer media!

Stan
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9) :file xferA; dev=99   (or whatever ldev XFER is)
   :restore *xferA; /; olddate;create (if necessary)
   ...



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