Thanks to everyone for the quick replies.

Much appreciated the Python solution to the question

Super. Thanks.
Works Great!

Thanks for everyone's suggestions.

Veeam after calling the 'freeze' script was doing some unnecessary processing so delaying the VMWare snapshot and the subsequent call to 'thaw' script.

Thanks. That seems to have done the trick.
pri_ref.value
has
'\x1c\x01SERVERA.FOO.BAR.ORG/STAGE\x14\x01SERVERA.foo.bar.org|2188\t\x01Primary\x08\x01Active\x15\x01172.31.33.69|1972\x15\x01SERVERA.foo.bar.org|1972'

The field separator appears to be \x01. However there is smattering of 
\x1c
\x14
\t
\x08
\x15

Not sure why there are these hex characters?

Thanks.

I missed that parameter

I'll give it a try

Thanks.

Works like a dream!

Thanks to all.
I have used the copy all IRIS.DAT files on production to test.

The only gotcha is that production the files are from a mirrored system and test is not mirrored so I needed to clear the mirror flags! 

Thanks.

Would I put this put it into my DB using VS CODE using the same procedure as putting a class [as shown in the youtube videos]?

Yes that was the problem.
Thanks

Thanks.

I was hoping for a quicker way to do what I was doing already!

Thanks for that detailed answer.

My situation is slightly different.

My client is a PC running Windows 10.

My server running IRIS is a Linux SUSE 15 VM.

iristerm will be running on my Windows 10 PC and connecting to IRIS on a Linux box.

I'm not sure that the iristerm(only available for Windows) can support ssh with certificates.

Thanks

Thanks for the info.

Thanks to everyone's reply.

I was actually trying to run this example [right triangle example class] on an IRIS in the cloud 
https://docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls...

Thanks for the advice - I'll give it a try

Thanks for the suggestion.
Let me try it out!

Thanks to all who replied