To enhance Steven's psychic powers :) , the legacy environment is Alpha 800's running VMS v7.2-3, MSCP serving some of it's HSG80 disks to CHARON-VAX 4105's runing VMS v6.2 . The test cluster is 2 DS10's running VMS v8.3 - no VAX. Everyone uses TCPware v5.8 . I am not interested in capturing the VAX (local) system disks. Cheers, Art