I am not familiar with the HIS you have but I have migrated databases using 1/4 inch mag tape. Old mag tape drives are famously unreliable. Be sure to use the newest tapes you can get and clean clean clean your tape drive heads and guides. I suspect your target machine will not be able to read your legacy database format so you can export/spool/compress your data to CSV/SQL files on the legacy disk drive. (If you export/spool/compress directly to tape you will be more at the mercy of a fickle tape drive.) If the HIS database is transparent, you could do the database conversion on the target computer.
This resource might be useful:
http://www.unixporting.com/quickguide.html
http://www.unixporting.com/unix-support.html
If the tape drive fails you, consider serial interface file transfer. (yuck)
Good luck,
John
At 02:45 PM 4/28/2004 +0000, you wrote:
>
>Hey All;
To be honest, the bigger problem is
>that their system only has a tape backup drive, 2GB, no CD, no floppy, and
>no network access. It is HP/UX. So, a bigger problem is first getting
>files off server. I am searching my contacts for someone who can put the
>files on CD if I bring them a 12 year old tape. (they do daily backups
>though a terminal, but do not know how to restore). So, after my long
>winded explanation, has anyone on the list worked with this HIS in their
>career? I know I am vague about information on system, but that is all I
>was given. Any hints on how to migrate this 12 year old repository to a
>MySQL database?
>
>
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