[Info-vax] SCP2 and large files

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <rh03ak$121p$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, Jeremy Begg
<jeremy at vsm.com.au> writes: 

> 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.

Why not do ZIP/VMS/LEVEL=9 on the saveset?