How to force rdist not to remove files on remote host?

[Olga_1]

Hello,
I need to bring about 30 GB of data from host1 to host2. Host2 has some files that do not exist on host1. How to force rdist not to remove the files on host2, but only to add the missing ones?
Thank you.

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

Shalom,

http://manpages.unixforum.co.uk/man-pages/unix/solaris-10-11_06/1/rdist-man-page.html

There are options toward the bottom that might prevent the delete.

You could use rync which has a toggle whether to delete or not.

SEP

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Olga:

First, I'd switch to 'rsync'. Instead of copying whole files, it only copies the changed blocks and is far more efficient than 'rdist'. You can configure 'rcync' to either leave or to delete files that exist on the receiving host but not on the sending one.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Olga_1]

Steven, James thank you for the reply.
Do I have to download rsync? I do not have it installed. I did not find much info on the forum on how to configure it. Many links are broken.

[Steven Schweda]

Are you planning to do this one time, or
repeatedly? If you're doing this one time,
then why use rdist or rsync instead of
something like, say, a "tar" pipeline?

[Olga_1]

I will need to use it many times during 3-4 months.

[vishnu.khandare]

Hi,

go for rsync

Regards
Vishnu Khandare

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Olga:

You can fetch a binary of 'rsync' from the HP-UX Porting Centre:

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Networking/Admin/rsync-3.0.7/

Since there are runtime dependencies you will need, you might use the new 'depothelper' to mange the whole installation:

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/answers/5-9.html

Regards!

...JRF...

[Olga_1]

Thank you all.