If I am completely wrong (and in this case, I would love to be), I trust
someone will set the record straight, but here is what our admins told
me. I noticed that we used to be able to store to disc on the
development box, then couldn't anymore; I may have the version numbers
wrong, but the outcome is the same. TurboStore was accidentally shipped
with 55. Express 2 removed this, so that it was no longer available. We
had licensed TurboStore for production, and have it there, but did not
license it for development, and no longer have it. We are looking at tar
to backup to disc (not my highest priority of the day, so I cannot
comment on how well this works). I guess it would be, well, difficult
for someone to explain how to get it back or to keep it, having moved
from 55 to Express 2 or more.

>----------
>From:  Michael Patterson[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent:  Monday, December 22, 1997 12:29 PM
>To:    [log in to unmask]
>Subject:       Re: [HP3000-L] TurboStore (was TRUCK files)
>
>Can it be True?!!? A Backup to DISC File?!?!! Oh, ThankYouThankYouThankYou!!!
>
>Its always been a pet peeve of mine that you could not Back up HP files to
>disc. (Of course not for proper system backups, but it does make a nice
>options
>for moving files between systems).
>
>If for no other reason, this will justify a move to 5.5. So you have my
>permission to '<Plug>' away James.
>
>Mike Patterson
>
>Overman_James wrote:
>
>> <PLUG ALERT
>
>> Perhaps, an even better way of moving files between 3000's is via the
>> STORE command.  As of some release of 5.5 (my 5.0 PP 6 system doesn't),
>> TurboSTORE/iX 7x24 True-Online Backup will allow STORE'ing to a disc file.
>> Throw in the COMPRESS=HIGH option and a tidy little file
>> can be created which can be transferred to another 3000 and a RESTORE
>> used to "unpack" the files.  Even a DIRECTORY option could be used to
>> provide Account Info.  No special utilities required.  I'm not sure
>> when the RESTORE command allowed the use of disc files for Input, that
>> may also be a 5.5ish release.  This also solves the problem of transferring
>> PRIV files and other nasty file types thru non-3000 systems.
>> <UNPLUG ALERT>
>> --
>>  James Overman HP Support Technology Lab  Roseville, CA
>