RE: 820 to 520 Upgrade

with the 270 standing still, I don't see a reason to not do it the way
previously mentioned... as that is essentially a side-by-side.



On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 10:38, Joe Pluta wrote:
> Okay, because I'm starting to get concerned.  Everybody is saying that I
> need to upgrade my little model 270 to V5R3 before moving it to the new
> box (which will probably be a 520).  But I don't have that luxury; the
> model 270 is going to stay in semi-retired service as a back-release
> machine, at least until all my clients move to newer releases.
> 
> Joe
> 
> 
> > From: rob@xxxxxxxxx
> > 
> > Joe,
> > 
> > I saved a few things to DVD.  Very few things.  The DVD drive is slow
> and
> > it takes a he!! of a lot of them to equal one tape.  You should be
> able to
> > get a tape drive reasonably on ebay.
> > 
> > We have a 270 with a 1/4" tape drive that we never use.  We just
> happen to
> > have access to a 3582 to back it up to.  And, the 270 can be taken
> down
> > during the middle of the day and no one would notice.  Not too many
> shops
> > that keep an extra lying around just to test new versions of OS,
> Domino,
> > etc prior to even putting it on their development machine.