Maximum size that can be transfered over SFTP

venkatm2012 · New User Joined: 14 Aug 2012 Posts: 8 Location: india

Hi,

Whats the max size that can be transferred over SFTP from Mainframe ? I need to push the file which are of 1 GB in size from mainframe to SHS server?

Thanks in Advance.

Nic Clouston · Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 11:42 am

Check with your network people - they may have put a limit on. We do not know how it was set up in your place.

venkatm2012 · New User Joined: 14 Aug 2012 Posts: 8 Location: india

Hi Nic,

Thanks for your response. I will check with network people.

In general, is there any limitation of size that can be transfered via SFTP? Is it recommended to transfer huge files ( 1 gb or more than 1 gb ) via SFTP?

Thanks in Advance.

Robert Sample · Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 4:31 pm

AFAIK, there's no size limit in ANY FTP -- but there may be limits on the size of the file that can be created on the receiving machine, or network limits, etc that would affect an FTP transfer.

dick scherrer · Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 8:01 pm

Hello,

The limit will be determined by the available space on the target system (volume, directory, whatever).

If your download fills some file system on the target, expect those admins (and others impacted) to be quite unhappy . . .

venkatm2012 · New User Joined: 14 Aug 2012 Posts: 8 Location: india

Hi all,

Thanks for your response.

Iam able to push 1 GB data via SFTP which took 5 minutes.

Have a good day.

dick scherrer · Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 6:41 pm

Good to hear it worked - thank you for the followup

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