[Info-vax] FTP FYI

[Chris]

On 11/21/20 20:24, Jeffrey H. Coffield wrote:
> I was moving savesets from one OpenVMS system to another one during a
> data center migration using (not my choice) an Amazon ftp service and
> found that on occasion a saveset file would not restore on the new
> system. I got this error :
>
> %BACKUP-F-INSBUFSPACE, insufficient virtual memory to accommodate
> minimum buffer count
>
> Googling the error provided no help. After digging into the problem I
> discovered the save sets in question had the correct file size but
> contained nothing but nulls. Re-pulling the files from the ftp server
> corrected the problem.
>
> It was not a case of pulling the files too soon as the restore command
> was only started until after the entire file had been pushed.
>
>
>
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Don't know all the specifics here, but plain old ftp needs to be in
binary mode for anything other than text data. Also, sftp tends to
be more robust than ftp if you have it on the system...

Chris