[Info-vax] VMS to VMS data copy options/performance when losing a DECnet link

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-04-07, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
> On 4/7/2022 7:24 PM, Rich Jordan wrote:
>> Customer has decided to turn off "legacy" DECnet support on their network.  They currently use DECnet for copies between two nonclustered integrity servers that are on different IP subnets/VLANs and have Cisco doing whatever magic it does to make DECnet appear local. THis is Phase IV, not DECnet over IP.
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>> Is there any documentation on relative performance for bulk data transfer with preliminary data archiving (ie ZIP or backup to a local archive file so not transferring lots of individual files) on VMS using FTP/SFTP  versus using NFS as the transfer mechanism?  I know details matter and I don't have them yet but is one likely to be enough different that it is worth pursuing a test?  Which won't be trivial given equipment availability...
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>> Thanks for any info
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>
> Tell customer to re-think ...
>

The customer may be doing this precisely because they do want to
make their network more secure.

Simon.

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