Stan-

This does work (or some variation of it).  We do it all the time here when
moving info between systems.

A tangent use of disk drives that we've found useful is using large,
inexpensive disk for archive purposes.  Instead of purchasing (often)
expensive archival devices such as CD or optical jukeboxes, just throw the
info on some cheap hard disks inside a cheap enclosure and hang it off your
system.  Users then have access to all this info online.  It might not be
right for everybody, but in many cases it is.

John Lee
HP Computer System Specialist
Vaske Computer Solutions


At 02:35 PM 1/18/2000 -0800, Stan Sieler wrote:
>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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