Re: replicate PROD iseries box to distant TEST box cross-country

[Tim Bronski <tim.bronski@xxxxxxxxx>]

and if you're just saving libraries to save files then just use the 
compression option on the save. It's not quite as good as zip but it's 
decent.

On 10/9/2013 6:44 PM, Gary Thompson wrote:
> Joel,
> after compress, take a look at the .zip size
> I bet your 4 step plan is worth a test.
>
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> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stone, Joel
> Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2013 10:04 AM
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> Subject: replicate PROD iseries box to distant TEST box cross-country
>
> We are separating our PROD & TEST boxes geographically.
>
> There is approx 30 gig of data & objects to copy.
>
> People in my organization are convinced that tape is the only method given the data volume. But tape is cumbersome; takes several days to transport, tapes go missing, must be logged out, logged-in, etc.
>
> What other strategies should be considered?
>
>
> Would the following work well (FTP instead of tape transport)?
>
> 1)	PROD: SAVLIB to *SAVF
>
> 2) 	ARP-ZIP to compress *SAVF
>
> 3)	FTP from iseries PROD box to distant TEST box
>
> 4)	RSTLIB to TEST box
>
>
>
> Is it possible that 30 gig could be moved in a few hours?  Or is that unrealistic.
>
>
> Any suggestions such as further details or better ideas?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
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