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Data Transfers

Data transfers using the DTSCLI command must be either managed transfers or agent-to-agent transfers. A single transfer must be one or the other; it cannot be both.

Rules for transfer operations:

• You cannot specify multiple -agent operands in the same command.
• You cannot specify multiple rpaths within the same -transfer operand.
• You cannot specify the -agent and -transfer operands together in the same command.
• If any operand or operand-parameter expression in a DTSCLI command includes an embedded space, enclose the entire expression in quotation marks. Always enclose the following in quotation marks: input and output path operands, filters, protocol_parameters, and method_parameters. This requirement also applies to other operands and parameters.
• For Data Transport Service r2 and r3 only, you can optionally use macros in data transfers to help systematically alter the names of input files (when they are sent) and output files (when they are received) when using the dtacli or dtscli command. For Data Transport Service, a macro is a set of characters that represents one or more variables or actions. You can make the output file name reflect the name of the sending computer, the date or time of the transfer, or other customized text.

Important! DTS supports IPv4 broadcast and IPv4/IPv6 multicast addressing. The BCAST point-to-many protocol is only for use with IPv4 addresses. If you want to perform a broadcast-type transfer over an IPv6 network, use the MCAST protocol with the relevant IPv6 multicast address.