Commands to copy a file system across hosts

[Mahesh_20]

Hello,

We are into a peculiar situation. Situation is as follows.

We have Building A with Machine A having a Tape library and say a file system /data1.

We have another building B; which is across the road to Building A in same campus. Building A and Building B are connected by LAN. There is no enterprise backup software like Dataprotector or any other third party software.

Building B hosts machine B without a tape drive and has /data1 file system.

Challenge is to copy /data1 of machine A to /data1 file system of machine B with a single command as far as possible and with retaining owner and group. (UID, GID will be taken care of.)

Can you post the commands here so that we can do the copy of file system across LAN? (There is no enough space to tar on machine A and then copy tar file to machine B and then untar. Preferably a single command using pipe.)

Please list out as many different ways as possible.

Reason for this is; on site we have SAP Basis administrator and does not have much OS knowledge at site.

Thanks and Best Regards.

Mahesh

[vishnu.khandare · Accepted solution]

Hi Mahesh,

U can copy the files acoross diffrent system, by scp.
syntam
scp -p sourece_file username@IP_address:/path_where to save/
It will ask for authentication
Provide to copy.

Hope this solves ur issue
Dont foget to assign points.

Regards
Vishnu Khandare

[DeafFrog]

Hi Mahesh ,

How sync should the data be , would you use password less scp b/w machine , copy the files (vishnu's method) or you could use rsync ,

http://forums13.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=109447627+1288852927917+28353475&threadId=1433453.
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[Mahesh_20]

DealFrog,

The system appears to be non-reachable or is there any issue with the link?

Regards

[Dennis Handly]

>he system appears to be non-reachable or is there any issue with the link?

It worked for me. Try this cleaned up version:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1433453

[Mahesh_20]

Hi Denis,

What I am looking at - A single command which will copy entire file system from source of a machine to destination of another machine.

Rsync will involving installation of soem software; although can be easy - onsite SAP Basis resource wont be able to do.

Hence like scp command; if you have any other approaches; please let us know.

Thank you.

Best Regards

Mahesh

[Ralph Grothe]

You can dump the whole filesystem by tunneling it through ssh.
Just use any dump/restore, fbackup/frecover (if source and target are HP-UX), tar, pax or find/cpio -o/cpio -i combination that you are familiar with or the respective OS provides.
You could even dump a raw copy stream by dd through the tunnel.
Examples of this must have been posted here hundreds of times.
Basically, it often looks similar to this

e.g.

# cd /mount/of/fs2dump && find . -xdev -depth -print0 | cpio -o0 | ssh remhost 'cd /mount/where/to/restore2 && cpio -id0

(n.b. this fits GNU find/cpio, on HP-UX ommit -print0 and the -0 options in cpio commands)

[stephen peng]

how about on A:
tar cvf - /data1 | remsh B tar xvf -

regards
stephen

[Hakki Aydin Ucar]

if you will not face with any security issue, you might also use/try;

# rcp file hostname:/path_to_copy_file