----- Forwarded by Sharon Lucas/Austin/IBM on 07/30/2009 02:55 PM -----
Daria Holden <dariahol...@gmail.com>
07/30/2009 02:54 PM
To
Sharon Lucas/Austin/i...@ibmus
cc
Subject
Re: [staf-users] fs copy directory performance
Hi Sharon,
I tried calling:
STAF local FS COPY DIRECTORY D:/QA/Test TODIRECTORY
\\mymachine/QA/Test TOMACHINE local RECURSE KEEPEMPTYDIRECTORIES
IGNOREERRORS
and it is just as fast as an xcopy or robocopy.
Thanks again.
Daria
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Sharon Lucas<luc...@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Daria,
>
> No, I don't think you do understand what specifying "local" for
TOMACHINE
> means. Note that you are copying from and to the same machine as far as
> STAF is concerned (even though you are specifying a UNC name for a
directory
> located on another machine). So, you should specify "local" for the
> TOMACHINE in your FS COPY request.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> Sharon Lucas
> IBM Austin, luc...@us.ibm.com
> (512) 286-7313 or Tieline 363-7313
>
>
>
> Daria Holden <dariahol...@gmail.com>
>
> 07/30/2009 10:05 AM
>
> To
> Sharon Lucas/Austin/i...@ibmus
> cc
> Subject
> Re: [staf-users] fs copy directory performance
>
>
>
>
> Hi Sharon,
> I understood what you said about setting TOMACHINE to "local" being
> more performant, but I am not copying to the local machine. I am
> copying from one machine to a different machine. Copying to the local
> machine is not what I need to do, so I can't make use of that
> performance benefit.
>
> While xcopy is a windows only command, we have a share setup on our
> Linux machines that is accessible to the Windows machines, so I can
> use the xcopy command to copy from a Windows "Test Manager" to a Linux
> "Test Runner" machine. I wouldn't be able to do the other way around
> of course.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> -Daria
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