Re: old optical storage

I've just started a process for backup using CDs. I do
the save to SAVFs, then CPYTOSTMF to the IFS, then use
the gzip utility to cut them really down to size (15% of
original in some cases). Then, next day, on the machine
with the burner, I manually (for now) copy from the IFS
to a DirectCD-formatted CD-RW.

gzip is free and available as part of a package called
GNU Tools for Developers, I think, at IBM. It's part of
the porting effort. It can be called with STRQSH or with
a CALL (this is a neat trick).
> Hi all,
>
> I received a call yesterday from a company that has a model 400 using an
> old optical writer for backup archive purposes.
>
> They tell me it's a panasonic 940 and they are using Recall 2000
> software that, I believe, runs on a PS/2 attached between their /400 and
> the optical reader.
>
> Well, their panasonic 940 broke and when they called their vendor, guess
> what, they no longer are in that line of business and do not have a
> replacement, nor an upgrade of any kind.
>
> They tell me that at a trade show they looked at replacements and were
> recommended Laser Vault but it is outside of their price range. (They
> are a small water utility)
>
> Any recommendations out there?  My first question to them was why
> optical for backup? And I got the usual answer, don't know.  That's the
> way it was set up.
>
> I'm leaning towards using FTP to copy their files in binary mode to a PC
> and using the PC's CD burner for archive purposes.  Any thoughts on
> that?  I believe that they run their billing once per month and what to
> have this backup archive as the last step in the month end closing.
>
> TIA,
> J. Kilgore
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