Re: Alternative to CPY for Optical

[Wayne McAlpine <wayne.mcalpine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sent off-list.

On 2/8/2010 1:34 PM, Shannon O'Donnell wrote:
> Yes I am.  Very!
>
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> From: Wayne McAlpine<wayne.mcalpine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 1:14 PM
> To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Alternative to CPY for Optical
>
> 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?
>
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