Hey Chris, ----- Chris Hammond-Thrasher <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I am in charge of an old Spydus 7.6.3 install on HP UNIX out here in > the South Pacific. Has anyone had experience getting large volumes (or > even all) records exported out of the system in MARC (or some other > rational) format? I've done a few of these now, for clients migrating from Spydus to Koha. The trick is that Spydus (now Civica) has to 'turn on' their MARC export routine for you, which they will charge you to do. Once that's done, the process is fairly straight forward. Here's a brief overview: Exporting MARC from Spydus There are three stages to exporting the MARC data from Spydus. Stage 1 - output a batch of records e.g. 10,000 Stage 2 - check the contents of MARCOUT Stage 3 - transfer the MARC records to a Unix file Batches of 10,000 records or less are recommended since there are over 130,000 bibliographic records and due to the fact that it will take many hours to output even in batches of 10,000. At the Main Spydus Menu type MDO Stage 1 - Create MARC records into the file MARCOUT Chose option 1 on the menu Responses: Tape drive or disk? Enter D for DISK Output holdings? Y Locations? Press <RETURN> for all locations Output records with no holdings? Y (the choice is really up to you) Flag records for output? Y Output records previously flagged? N Number of records to output? 10000 Press <RETURN> to start the process Note: MARC records are written to the file MARCOUT which has been sized to hold around 10,000 records At the start of each cycle the file MARCOUT is cleared At any of the above prompts you can enter a period "." to abort the process MN.MAIN<6> gets the flag B set to prevent the record being output again Step 2-Checking MARC records Chose option 2 on the menuy Enter T for terminal Stage 3 - Transfer MARC Records to Unix Chose option 3 on the menu MARC source file name? MARCOUT Enter Unix file name? (Wherever you like, example shown below) enter destination UNIX file name ?/u/sanlib/SL/NELMK1 Hope that helps. Cheers, -- Joshua Ferraro SUPPORT FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE President, Technology migration, training, maintenance, support LibLime Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS [log in to unmask] |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS