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

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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