Backup device recommendations

[Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Been installing our "new" 720 with V5R2M0 and things have gone well.  We 
plan to use this as a development machine and it IS capacious (220GB) 
which will allow for lots of test databases for testing, etc.  But, it 
introduces an issue that I haven't given much thought to, until now.  It 
has a "tiny" 4/8 GB SLR 1/4" tape drive.  I figure we should have at 
least 50/60 GB to be able to back up source and objects.  The model 800 
we have has a 6384 drive that handles 50/60GB SLR tapes.  It would be 
nice to use the same media (although I know that IBM's TRUE business is 
built around selling tape drives and cables, given the cost and variety 
of those things, and, perhaps, they own stock in Imation...)

Anyway, I see three options:

1.    Replace the existing 4/8 GB drive with something bigger (doubtful 
that the 720 supports such a thing).

2.    Get an external tape drive.

3.     Figure out how to have the Model 800 save libraries that reside 
on the 720.

Option 1 would be the best if such a thing IS possible.

Option 2 would be OK if we aren't talking $1000's

Option 3 could be accomplished by saving the libraries to save files 
first and then transferring them to the 800 for backup.  That might push 
the relatively meager storage on the 800 though.

Anybody had experience with any of these approaches?

Thanks,

Pete Helgren