Re: Backup device recommendations -- MIDRANGE-L

Depends what the "expansion tower" looks like. This sucker is bigger than anything we had in past. If you cut a refrigerator in half and painted it black with a red stripe at the bottom and put wheels on it you'd have a fairly good representation of this thing. I can't image why a tiny little 1/4" drive would require an expansion tower.

I found the system builder PDF and I'll see if I can figure out what it would take to put one in.

Thanks for the tip.

Pete


Jones, John (US) wrote:

According to the V5R2 System Builder you can add a  to a 5072/5073
expansion tower.  Got one of those on your 720?  If so I imagine you can
pick up a 6384 pretty cheap on the used market.


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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pete Helgren
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 5:34 PM
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Subject: Backup device recommendations

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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