Path: utzoo!attcan!sobmips!qnorth!mark
From: mark@qnorth.UUCP (Mark F. Proudman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: Re: Converting from att 3b2 to ncr tower 32/700
Message-ID: <19@qnorth.UUCP>
Date: 13 Mar 90 16:15:59 GMT
References: <90067.114005TEMNGT23@YSUB.BITNET>
Organization: Quadratron - The Q-Office people
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From article <90067.114005TEMNGT23@YSUB.BITNET>, by TEMNGT23@YSUB.BITNET (Lou Anschuetz):
> 
> I currently have at AT&T 3B2/400 which I am replacing with an
> NCR Tower 32/700 shortly.  There is about 20MB of data I need to
> move from the 3b2 to the ncr.  On the 3b2 is unix v.2.1.1, and
> I understand I will be getting unix v.3.2.2 on the ncr.  The 3b2
> has a tape drive ...
[ ... ]
> I have this terrible feeling that I am going to have to asynch
> download.......  tell me it ain't so.

Your feeling is correct.  There is no way to read AT&T's old 23 MB formatted
tapes with anything else, such as a QIC-24/120/150 etc.

However, uucp should not take more than 24 hours.  Start it Friday night.

BTW, the best way to move a lot of files is make a cpio archive on disk,
and move the archive.  This preserves permissions, and avoids the overhead
(to you and to the machine) involved with managing 4 million little files.
If your archive gets bigger than a Meg or so, split it up.  (If you fail on 
the 20th Megabyte of a single file, you have to start again).

Mark Proudman						(514) 636 1732
uunet!sobeco!qnorth!mark				Quadraton Canada Inc.