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

[Dave Froble]

On 4/8/2022 1:51 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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.
>>>
>>> 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...
>>>
>>> Thanks for any info
>>>
>>
>> Tell customer to re-think ...
>>
>
> The customer may be doing this precisely because they do want to
> make their network more secure.
>
> Simon.
>

Security or nice helpful tools, choose one ...

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