Is there secure method to synchronize files (say every 15 mins)

[Q4you]

between 2 servers for few unix directories. We are *not* considering "rdist" as it does not comply with security standards.

TIA,

-Q

[Pete Randall]

Could you use a cron job to scp the files between servers?


Pete

[Sandman!]

How about rsync? It can synchronize files between servers and minimize network bandwidth utilization...man rsync(1)

cheers!

[Jeff_Traigle]

I currently implementing rsync for some of our systems that we don't want to pay all out to ServiceGuard. It seems to be pretty nice from what I can tell so far. As Sandman states, it's easier on resource utilization because it only copies changed blocks, not entire files as scp would do. You can also use SSH for the copies, providing the security that protocol provides. You need public key authentication for the user doing the rsync to perform automated synchronizations.

[Wayne Patton_1]

Just a note . . . rsync is not included with HP-UX. But you can get it from a site like: http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/

That site is an Open Source repository for HP-UX software.

wayne

[Patrick Wallek]

rsync works well. I use it between several machines. I believe the default now is for it to communicate over SSH rather than rsh as it used to.

[Theodore Pardike]

Rsync appears to be included with the Internet Express package.
I have not installed and tried it yet, but did notice that it was there.

HP-UX Internet Express for HP-UX 11i v1
http://h20293.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=HPUXIEXP1111

HP-UX Internet Express for HP-UX 11i version 2
http://h20293.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=HPUXIEXP1123

Ted