Transfer of files

[mehul_3]

Hi there!
I don't know how to use rcp.
e.g I want to configure a standby database at remote site and I want to transfer a datafiles from u01/gdbs from srsux001(host name) to ahsux001(host name) at remote site in other city.So how to transfer this files in bin mode using rcp

Mehul

[harry d brown jr · Accepted solution]

rcp on anything but windows is always binary transfer.

rcp -rp srsux001:/u01/gdbs ahsux001:/u01

man rcp

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harry d brown jr

[Steven E. Protter]

Since you now know how to use rcp, the same syntax will work with scp

scp is secure copy without the danger of clear text passwords going back and forth.

http://software.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=T1471AA

You can even go password free. See attachment.

SEP

[G. Vrijhoeven]

Hi Mehul,

I would look into scp but rcp works like this.

srsux001( source)
ahsux001 ( destination)

make sure a the user exists on both nodes.
create a .rhosts file in the homedir of user
put one line in there
srsux001 username

Where srsux001 must be resolvable.
the right on the .rhosts file can be chmod 600 /homedir/.rhosts

to copy interactive on serverA
rcp -p ahsux001:/u01/gbds /targetdir

check man .rhosts and man rcp

default the rtools are enabled in the inetd.conf

HTH,

Gideon

HTH,

Gideon

[Geoff Wild]

You may also want to look at rdist:

rdist facilitates the maintaining of identical copies of files over
multiple hosts. It preserves the owner, group, mode, and modification
time of files if possible and can update programs that are executing.

How I do it:

Cron:

# Copy prdadm across to the DR site.
05 01 * * * /app/admin/drp/update-binaries.sh


# cat /app/admin/drp/update-binaries.sh
#! /bin/sh

# Keep the DRP copy of the vgpadm up-to-date.
# Currently the files are in:
#
# /home/ipradm/DR
#
# See the rdist(1M) distfile for a list of exclusions.

DRPDIR=/app/admin/drp
DRPHOST=svr031

HOST=`/usr/bin/uname -n`
PRD=`cmviewcl |grep prddbci |awk '{print $5}'`
if [ "$HOST" = "$PRD" ]
then
mount | grep /home > /dev/null 2>&1
if [ $? -eq 0 ]
then
( su - prdadm -c "rdist -f $DRPDIR/distfile prdadm"; ) 2>&1 |\
tee $DRPDIR/drp.log 2>&1 |\
mailx -s "prdadm DRP rdist output" `cat /usr/local/mailadmin.list`
fi
fi


# cat /app/admin/drp/distfile
PRDDR = ( svr031 )

#
# File systems to be copied over to the DR host.
# Don't use -R in install - so as not to remove files on destination host
PRDADM = /home/prdadm

prdadm: ( ${PRDADM} ) -> ( ${PRDDR} )
install -w ;



Rgds...Geoff

[Ivajlo Yanakiev]

Using rcp is securety risk. Use scp instead.
But if you still want use rcp, edit /.rhosts and add remoute host.

[Bharat Katkar]

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