On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Chris Mason <[email protected]>wrote:
> Jim > > FTP uses TCP so it's the reliability of TCP that matters here. Of what > underlying facilities happen to consist is very probably of no relevance. > Thus, > assuming the underlying facilities are inherently *less* reliable that the > reliability offered by TCP, you get the same level of reliability whether > you are > passing data within your local infranet or over the Internet. > > So, if you consider TCP offers sufficient reliability, you don't need to go > looking for another technique for "moving" your dumps. I suspect that, for > dumps, TCP is quite adequate. > > Chris Mason > Chris, thanks, that's good to hear. However I've just tried to FTP my first dump which was approx 1.4 GB and it failed about one third the way through with - Netout : Connection reset by peer 451 Transfer aborted due to receive error which doesn't bode well. Jim McAlpine ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
