Re: Alternative to CPY for Optical

[Wayne McAlpine <wayne.mcalpine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I had a project last year to transfer ninety platters to DASD and ran up 
against the same problem with the CPY command.  The fastest solution by 
far was to do an automated FTP transfer.  Platters that took a full day 
using CPY ran in a blazingly fast(!) four hours using FTP.

One caveat: FTP will not create subdirectories automatically, so you 
have to dump the directory tree structure first and then build your FTP 
script with the necessary MD commands in it.  I'd be happy to share the 
script programs with you off-list if you're interested.

On 2/8/2010 11:08 AM, sodonnell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need a way to copy images from a 3595 Optical drive (think it's
> 3595...the model numbers do not stick in my head) to DASD.
>
> I've been using they CPY command like this:
>
> CPY OBJ('qopt/F0105A/*') TODIR('/newdir') SUBTREE(*ALL) REPLACE(*YES)
>
> And this works, but it's really slow.  It can take, literally, days to
> copy a single platter of data.
>
> Is there another method, even commercial, that someone can point me to,
> that would allow me to perform this copy faster?
>
> I've got something like 140 platters to copy and a small time window to
> get it completed in.
>
> Thanks!