Greg,
I would look for a common server that both machines can access. Perhaps a
server that you can deposit the file on via ftp in your batch job at the
time it is created. The same server would have the directory shared for the
Wintel workstation to pick it up.
Doug.
Doug Werth Beechglen Development Inc.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Stigers, Greg [And] <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 5:44 PM
Subject: OT: batch processing strike zone
> X-no-Archive:yes
> This is an old puzzle, but I want to see what answers others have found.
>
> We need to pull a file from a host during a batch processing window, after
> the batch runs that produces the file, but before the system is taken down
> for backup, currently a space of three to four hours, except for the
> exceptions. Sometimes, things go wrong, and this can even delay the
backup.
>
> The system pulling the file is Wintel, and does not run an ftp server, and
> its batch processing is pretty simple, rudimentary stuff, so I can only do
> what I can hack up on my own out of stone knives and bear skins. The host
in
> question does not run SAMBA. So far as I can tell, there is no good
> mechanism for a conversation between the two systems. We have considered
> having the host in question ftp to an NT ftp server that this other system
> could see, and pick up the file from there by some means, but that also
adds
> one more point of failure, as well as the need for someone on this host to
> do some scripting (should that make me nervous?).
>
> All other things being equal, I would say to download the file some
> reasonable number of minutes before the backup begins, and if the host had
> problems that could not be solved before that time, then those problems
are
> their problems, not ours (but that response won't win any peer recognition
> awards), and we'll handle things the next day.
>
> Greg Stigers
> http://www.cgiusa.com
> my perl script says the answer is forty-two
>
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