How to transfer sas datasets from windows server to linux server

[SachinKM]

Hi all,

Our SAS environment is moving from windows to linux.

Data set size: 1 TB

Need your suggestions.

Thanks,

Sachin Mahabale

[Kurt_Bremser]

Since the hardware will be the same (Intel or Intel-based), byte order won't change, so you should be fine with just copying your datasets and SQL views.

Data step views and catalogs should be tested before migration; you might have to use cport/cimport for this.

[SASKiwi]

If you have SAS/CONNECT on both servers then PROC UPLOAD run on the target server is another way of transferring both SAS datasets and other SAS file types like catalogs.

[SachinKM]

Thanks SASKiwi

[andreas_lds]

You can use the datasets created on windows, but SAS will use CEDA (cross environment data access) slowing down all jobs. Using SAS/Connect as mentioned by @SASKiwi is the best way to convert the datasets.

[SachinKM]

Thanks andreas_Ids

[Kurt_Bremser]

Regarding performance: on any current LAN (1 Gbit), you should achieve a consistent throughput of 50MB/s or above (with sftp), which translates to roughly 20 seconds for a GB, or ~6 hours for the whole job.

[SachinKM]

Thanks KurtBremser