To close the loop on this, I ended up using pax -wvzf /u/directory/myarchive.pax -x os390 *
on the sending end, FTP STREAM/IMAGE, and pax -rvf myarchive.pax and CHOWN in some cases on the receiving end. Seems to have worked like a champ. As I had guessed, FTP was super fast. I did not write down what it said but I think it was 40MB/second. The -v in there is not necessary but I found it reassuring to see all the filenames fly by. Without the -x os390 I got some "unsupported tag" messages. Don't know if it would have been an actual problem, but -x os390 made the messages go away. I eschewed the use of SSH because I am not super familiar with it and did not want another variable. The negative of my method of course is disk space: you need room for an additional 25% to 50% in the zFS file system, beyond the actual files being moved. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 9:52 AM To: [email protected] Subject: How best to copy all UNIX files one z/OS to another I have two z/OS systems joined by a real fast TCP connection. (They're actually two guests on the same VM, but seeing as how I have relatively little knowledge or authority on the VM side of things it may be simpler to just think of them as two adjacent machines.) This is the IBM Dallas "Innovation Center," FWIW. What would be the best way of replicating all of the "user" UNIX files from one to the other? I can of course identify the "user" files by their highest directory name. I want to propagate all of the permissions and so forth. Is there a good way to do that? FWIW I have complete authority on the z/OS machines; I can run SPECIAL and/or OPERATIONS if necessary. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
