That is a lot of work whereas the trend is to have less and less peered lists. Disk space is only expensive on old machines, and then only if management refuses to buy secondhand disks of the same technology. I bought a secondhand 3380-AE4 + a suitable disk controller (3880-3), guaranteed by IBM to be in good state, and the total cost was some $12k for 5G of disk space + string head logic + controller (that is, if I want to expand I can add up to 3 units at a lower cost). This is not a museum case but something about 5-6 years old. If there is no space to archive the list on one of the peers, it is perhaps not necessary to keep that peer. That is, nowadays the main reason for having peers is that it provides several access points for the archives. Eric