[Info-vax] scp or sftp: file is "raw", needs to be parsed - possible to work around that?

[Jeffrey H. Coffield]

On 05/19/2021 04:29 AM, Gregory Reut wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Trying to scp a very large file off an Alpha VMS 8.3 system. Larger the file, longer it takes to start the transfer. This scp message in verbose mode gives a clue:
> SCP Source file is "raw", and it needs to be parsed
>
> Parsing a 20GB file takes longer than a standard scp timeout. and I need to scp files 10 times larger.
> Perhaps there is a way to skip the parsing?
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Greg
>

If you are creating the save set, can you make a series of smaller save 
sets? I tend to make a lot of little save sets like one per file or one 
per directory so it's quicker to do a restore of a particular file 
rather than having to restore a large save set just to get one file that 
was deleted.

Some other posts suggested using zip but I believe zip has an  upper 
limit of ~2GB.

File attributes for a save set can be manually restored by using set 
file/(attr=rfm:fix,lrl:32256) where the 32256 is obtained from a 
dir/full of the save set looking at the record format. We have copied 
save sets to a Linux box and then used bzip to compress them enough to 
fit on a Blu-Ray disk and needed to do that to restore the save set.

Jeff Coffield
www.digitasynergyinc.com