Can I copy a library from 400 to a flash drive

wgrantusa

Well Known Member
Is it possible to copy a data library from the 400 to a flash drive?
 
Sure. Backup all of the objects in the library to a *SAVF and transfer the savefile to a PC using FTP (in binary mode). Of course, this will be useless if you need to actually look at the information...

What are you trying to achieve?
 
We wanted to take part of our data and load it onto a test machine since the file was small about 2 gig
 
If the two machines are connected on the same network and FTP is running on both boxes then transferring a save file (*SAVF) would be your quickest/safest bet. The steps are farly simple:

1. Create a Save File in a library like QGPL (CRTSAVF)
2. Back up your objects into the save file (SAVOBJ using *SAVF)
3. Create an empty save file on your Test system using the same name/library that you used in Production
4. Start FTP, sign-in and connect to the TEST system using the proper user profile.
5. Transfer the save file from your Production box to the Test box using binary mode.
6. After the transfer completes, restore the objects on the Test box via RSTOBJ using the *SAVF option

Pretty simple really...we do it here all the time. If your limited to a 100MB network it might take a few minutes to transfer ;-)

Terry
 
True...I didn't mention those commands because you have to have Object Connect installed and that is a little bit more work ;-)
 
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