Login or Register to Ask a Question and Join Our Community

Sponsored Content
Full Discussion: UNIX - SCP File Transfer
Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users UNIX - SCP File Transfer Post 302184019 by tderscheid on Thursday 10th of April 2008 09:55:46 AM
Old 04-10-2008
I'm missing some of the bigger-picture elements
Quote:
Originally Posted by vijaykrc

can i delete each file when the copy is done?
If i use SCP by looping i know it can be done but it takes lot of time if i have more files. If i use the * to transfer multiple files it goes in quickly as it dont have to connect every time to the server.
Well, are you generating all the files once, then moving all the files, then deleting all the files, with nothing touching the directory during the transfer? If so, then if your scp /$sourcepath/* has finished with exit code 0, it's reporting success, so the files got to the target machine. As long as nothing has generated more source files, then you could rm /$sourcepath/* and be happy, or depending on your available space, tar them and save them for a week.

How much time are you losing during the connection process? Aren't you ultimately going to automate this and just drink coffee while the move script runs from crontab and then sends you an email of the log when it's done? Is the time you lose actually a critical factor?

If you're having to move, daily, a million tiny files from server A to server B, something else is wrong with that picture. Would server B accept a tar.gz of each group of files you want to send?

I am sure Era can find several other angles to improve this. A little more information about the timeline of file creation might be useful.
 

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Shell Programming and Scripting

SCP file transfer command on solaris

I need to transfer multiple files using SCP between two solaris machines. Can somebody explain how to achieve that ? (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: parthum
3 Replies

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

file transfer using scp..

Hi Frdz I have a problem like. I need to transfer a file from source to destination (different systems with different IPs) using "scp" command and before transfer the file i have to check the file is available in destination or not, if it is there no need to transfer, otherwise we have to... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: KiranKumarKarre
5 Replies

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

File transfer using SCP

I have a shell script which uses SCP command to transfer the files from one server to another server. The files are getting transferred successfully, but the problem is the files transferred to the destination server didnot have the permissions as that of the files on the source server. Command... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: kumarm
5 Replies

4. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

scp command for file transfer

I am not able to throw a file from server173 to server067 i.e. wlsuser@server173> scp /tmp/harsha.txt wlsuser@server067:/tmp fails However, I am able to pull a file from server173 onto server067's /tmp dir wlsuser@server067> scp wlsuser@server173:/tmp/harsha.txt /tmp... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: shifahim
2 Replies

5. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

SCP - File transfer message

Whenever I transfer file through SCP between two server it gives below given message.....Is there a way to avoid it.... Target server : newyork $ scp ABC27801.iue newyork:./iABC/x0017801.iue Message ===== This system is for the use of authorized users only. Individuals using this... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Pash
1 Replies

6. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

SCP File Transfer

I have 3 AIX server namely - Server 1 , Server 2 and Server 3. And have done SCP setup between Server 1 and Server 2 so that i dont have to give password when i transfer file from Server 1 to Server 2 by setting public key between the server. Q1. If the unix password of the target server... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Pash
3 Replies

7. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

SCP File Transfer

On unix AIX server, when I am trying to transfer file from one directory to another directory on the same server through a program(where i call the script) it gives error "Lost Connection". (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: Pash
5 Replies

8. AIX

Problem using scp to transfer a file

I am testing the following command to transfer a file from my server (AIX 5.2) to another server. I was able to generate the keys and sent them the public key. scp -v -P 4030 /home/lawson/.ssh/jimtest.txt someuser@some.ftpsite.net:/Inbound/jimtest.txt > jimtest_out.txt 2>&1 Based on... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: jyoung
3 Replies

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Partial File Transfer using scp

I am trying to transfer a zip file of around 30 MB in my automation script using scp from system A to B. When I manually do scp, file is complete transferred but when automation shell script runs it, zip file is not completely transferred. Stack Trace while doing manual : Executing:... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Shaishav Shah
1 Replies

10. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Need some help regarding file transfer between server (sftp/scp)

Hi All, Need some help regarding file transfer between server. Suppose we have system-A and system-B. To transfer file from system-A to system-B we usually share the public keys of system-A to system-B and do scp/sftp to transfer a file. Is it possible that public key of system-B can be... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: abhi_123
3 Replies

LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

ods-server

ODS-SERVER(1)							   User Commands						     ODS-SERVER(1)

NAME

       ods-server - minimal OBEX server based on obex-data-server

SYNOPSIS

       ods-server [options] profile path

DESCRIPTION

       ods-server  provides a minimal OBEX server based on obex-data-server for receiving files over bluetooth.  profile selects the UUID-128 pro-
       file ID to use, currently opp and ftp can be used as aliases for object push and obex ftp respectively.	path is the target  directory  for
       received files.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
	      show this help message and exit

       -l ADDRESS, --local=ADDRESS
	      ADDRESS of Bluetooth adapter to listen on. Default is 00:00:00:00:00:00

       -p, --pairing
	      Require remote devices to be paired before allowing them to connect. Disabled by default

       -r, --readonly
	      Disallow any write operations. Allowed by default

       -t, --thumbnails
	      Require remote device to send thumbnails when using Imaging (BIP) server

       -a, --ask-to-accept
	      Prompt user to accept or reject every file. By default all files are accepted

AUTHOR

       ods-server was written by Tadas Dailyda <tadas@dailyda.com> and is shipped as ods-server-test.py in the obex-data-server distribution

       This manual page was written by Filippo Giunchedi <filippo@debian.org> for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

ods-server 0.4.4						     May 2009							     ODS-SERVER(1)
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 02:10 AM.
Unix & Linux Forums Content Copyright 1993-2022. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy