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

Very kind of you to offer - thanks!!

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tim Bronski
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2013 12:01 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: replicate PROD iseries box to distant TEST box cross-country

Joel,
Let me see if I can put you in touch with someone who's doing something
similar (I think). I'll have to check first to see if they're willing to
talk.

On 10/9/2013 6:03 PM, Stone, Joel wrote:

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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