Re: Calculate remining time/bytes on a FTP transmission

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's at best a SWAG (Scientific Wild A** Guess) emphasis on the Wild part.
Communications line conditions, other traffic on the line, DASD % busy on
both sides,  (do I really need to go on?)

It's as good as you are going to get but keep in mind it could also be
wildly off too.

As to seeing the line speed that's best done at the switch/firewall.  If
there is some monitoring software you could use that.

--
Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 11:48 AM Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Check the file sizes on both systems.  The size ratio could be compared to
> the time and figure out the remaining time.
> If 75% of the file is sent in 24 hours then 24 / .75 = 32 hours total.  32
> - 24 = 8 hours remaining.
>
> Rob Berendt
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> -----Original Message-----
>
> Does anyone know how to calculate the remaining time/bytes on a file
> transfer?
>
> I am FTP'ing a 185Gb to a remote system and it has been copying for more
> than 24 hours. I need to be able to estimate the remaining time of the
> copy.
>
> The only information I have is the size of the file and the I/O count when
> I display the open files for the job.
>
> Can I see somewhere how many bytes per minute are being copied?
>
> TIA, Darryl Freinkel.
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