[Info-vax] SCP2 and large files

[Scott Dorsey]

Jeremy Begg  <jeremy at vsm.com.au> wrote:
>I think where it's going wrong is step 2.  The stat() on the 500GB 
>saveset takes a very long time (seems to be about 90 minutes), by which 
>time the Linux end has given up waiting for the transfer to begin.
>
>Therefore two possible solutions spring to mind:
>
>a. Can the CRTL stat() routine be told to guess the file size from the 
>RMS file header (ALQ perhaps)?  I thought there might be a DECC$ feature 
>logical to do this, but I can't find it.
>
>b. Can SCP2 be told to enable TCP keepalive on the connection?

Isn't there a BACKUP option that will cause BACKUP to make multiple smaller
savesets which might be easier to handle for your script?
--scott
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