dccp(1) General Commands Manual dccp(1)
dccp -- Copy a file from or to a dCache server.
Synopsis
dccp [option...] <sourceUrl> <destUrl>
Arguments
The following arguments are required:
sourceUrl
The URL of the source file.
destUrl
The URL of the destination file.
Description
The dccp utility provides a cp(1) like functionality on the dCache file system. The source must be a single file while the destination
could be a directory name or a file name. If the directory is a destination, a new file with the same name as the source name will be cre-
ated there and the contents of the source will be copied. If the final destination file exists in dCache, it won't be overwritten and an
error code will be returned. Files in regular file systems will always be overwritten if the -i option is not specified. If the source and
the final destination file are located on a regular file system, the dccp utility can be used similar to the cp(1) program.
Options
The following arguments are optional:
-a
Enable read-ahead functionality.
-b <bufferSize>
Set read-ahead buffer size. The default value is 1048570 Bytes. To disable the buffer this can be set to any value below the
default. dccp will attempt to allocate the buffer size so very large values should be used with care.
-B <bufferSize>
Set buffer size. The size of the buffer is requested in each request, larger buffers will be needed to saturate higher bandwidth
connections. The optimum value is network dependent. Too large a value will lead to excessive memory usage, too small a value will
lead to excessive network communication.
-d <debug level>
Set the debug level. <debug level> is a integer between 0 and 127. If the value is 0 then no output is generated, otherwise the
value is formed by adding together one or more of the following values:
Value Enabled output
1 Error messages
2 Info messages
4 Timing information
8 Trace information
16 Show stack-trace
32 IO operations
32 IO operations
64 Thread information
-h <replyHostName>
Bind the callback connection to the specific hostname interface.
-H
show progress during file transfer.
-i
Secure mode. Do not overwrite the existing files.
-l <location>
Set location for pre-stage. if the location is not specified, the local host of the door will be used. This option must be used with
the -P option.
-p <first_port>:<last_port>
Bind the callback data connection to the specified TCP port/rangeSet port range. Delimited by the ':' character, the <first_port> is
required but the <last_port> is optional.
-P
Pre-stage. Do not copy the file to a local host but make sure the file is on disk on the dCache server.
-r <bufferSize>
TCP receive buffer size. The default is 256K. Setting to 0 uses the system default value. Memory useage will increase with higher
values, but performance better.
-s <bufferSize>
TCP send buffer size. The default is 256K. Setting to 0 uses the system default value.
-t <time>
Stage timeout in seconds. This option must be used with the -P option.
Examples:
To copy a file to dCache:
[user] $ dccp /etc/group dcap://example.org/pnfs/desy.de/gading/
To copy a file from dCache:
[user] $ dccp dcap://example.org/pnfs/desy.de/gading/group /tmp/
Pre-Stage request:
[user] $ dccp -P -t 3600 -l example.org /acs/user_space/data_file
stdin:
[user] $ tar cf - data_dir | dccp - /acs/user_space/data_arch.tar
stdout:
[user] $ dccp /acs/user_space/data_arch.tar - | tar xf -
See also
cp
version 2.47.6 22 February 2011 dccp(1)