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- From: tamara@glia.biostr.washington.edu (tiny t)
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- Subject: Re: a question about transfering large sas data sets
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.183937.6105@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 18:39:37 GMT
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- In article <22082512462222@biost.biostat.wisc.edu> MARCUS@BIOST.BIOSTAT.WISC.EDU writes:
- >I need advice as to how to transfer a very large SAS data set
- >
- > The data set takes up about 57 megabytes.
- >
- > Receiver can not accept DAT tapes
- What do you mean by DAT tapes?
- > PROC COPY does not create datasets that are bigger than one tape
- > so the dataset needs to be split up.
- I was able to fit a 50 + dataset on one tape. It depends on the density you're
- using of course. What density are you using? What do you mean by PROC COPY.
- Obviously, this has to be a transport file, so I'm assuming you are
- writing a transport file.
- >
- >Does anyone know of an efficient way to transfer the data? I have tape
- >capabilites, but would rather not use more than 5.
- The most efficient way to transfer the data is to use
- FTP. Do you have that capability? Are you on a bitnet node?
- Do you have "send" capability. Is the person on the other node on a bitnet
- node?>
-
- I would break the dataset up if you absolutely have to. There is no
- reason that I can see why this would take five tapes. What is the footage.
- Again if you have to break it up I prefer to break things up by subject.
- That is variables should be divided according to subject (or you could do this
- alphabetically).
-
- I always prefer a cpu to cpu transfer. I did upload a 50 meg dataset from
- the PC, going at 9600. It took hours, but it can be done. Be careful
- transferring a VMS dataset, unless you are using 5.18 (which I think you are).
-
- More details would help.
-
- Hope this helps some,
- Tamara
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