Transferring Data from One iSeries box to another

Good morning, everyone.

In the past our development box was in another building relative to our production box. What we did on a nightly basis was copy over the previous day's production data from PRD to DEV over the network. This made it quite a task to copy all this data over and took up a lot of bandwidth and time.

However, I have migrated the boxes and now have both the PRD and DEV in the same rack. Instead of copying everything across the network I would prefer to link the boxes directly into each other so that movement of the data would be much faster. I'm guessing I simply cannot connect the boxes directly using a crossover cable, so what is the best method to link these boxes together and copy everything over? Should I look at some type of fiber channel solution? If so, what part numbers would I need.

Incidentally the PRD box is a 520 series box (i5) and the production box is a 720+. Both are running 6.1.1.


Thankee-sai!

/b;

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Brian Piotrowski
Manager - I.T.
Simcoe Parts Service, Inc.
Ph: 705-415-0995
Fx: 705-435-5029
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