Probably unlikely but if you have SAS/CONNECT licensed on both SAS servers a simple PROC UPLOAD will copy your SAS datasets or indeed whole SAS libraries a lot more easily. No fluffing around with tar, ftp, DATA step file processing or anything else.   Pity you are not using Windows servers with UNC drive mappings, then PROC COPY would work fine as you can define LIBNAMEs on the target server pointing to the source server folders. @Kurt_Bremser - hate to say this, but this is one area where Windows just works better ... View more