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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



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