Stan wrote:

> 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)

Well, *that* wouldn't be very useful, now would it? Here's the scoop from
the (5.5) STORE and TurboSTORE/iX Products Manual at
<http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/doc3k/BB515190002.16173/24> (gotta love those
web docs!)

<snip>

If STORE fills up the first disk file specified for the backup, it
creates as many additional disk files as needed, or uses existing disk
files.  They will be built with the same default file characteristics as
the first disk file.  The naming convention used for additional files is
to append the reel number to the end of the first disk filename.  The
resulting name will be an HFS-syntax name.  For example, if STORE needed
three disk files to store all files, they would be named:

       /SYS/MYBACKUP/STORDISC
       /SYS/MYBACKUP/STORDISC.2
       /SYS/MYBACKUP/STORDISC.3

When STORE moves on to another file, be sure enough disk space exists
before doing the backup.

<snip/>

BTW, personally, I love Stan's idea. It's clean, it's elegant, it's fairly
simple, very straightforward, faster than using *any* tape drive, and it's
even cost effective (if you can roll the disk drive(s) into the new system
configuration). Great idea, Stan!

Patrick
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Patrick Santucci
Technical Services Analyst
Seabury & Smith, Inc.