Re: Copying data to IFS

["rick baird" <rick.baird@xxxxxxxxx>]

If possible, try using FTP instead of a windows copy - it bypasses the
whole netserver thing entirely and transfers strictly using TCP.

Might save some time.

On 3/14/06, Smith, Mike <Mike_Smith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We had a situation arise where our tape drive went bad on one of our
> windows file servers.  My boss had the idea, that maybe as a temporary
> move, we could backup the server onto the IFS.  We have enough fee disk
> space to accommodate this.
>
> However, during testing of this, he found that it was taking an
> extremely long time to copy files.  I know the IFS is slow, but I guess
> we are wondering if there may be other issues involved.
>
> For instance a 13 mb file took well over 4 minutes to copy to the IFS.
>
> Is it that the IFS is just extremely slow, or is there some
> configuration that might affect this?
>
> Michael Smith
> iSeries.mySeries.
>
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