You've almost got the command. You have forgotten to use tar on the other side of the ssh and the tar on the local server has some problems as well. Here you go:
You can stick a 'v' in the tar command if you want verbose output.
Thanks Blowtorch. I've got a question on the command you show. Why is the tar -xf - needed? Since I dont want to untar the file on the server as it is going to be written to a tape should the command be
tar -cf - acc/ | ssh user@sport (cd /home/user/temp )
Also, I've also come across the netcat command and it looks like it might work equally well. Is there any advantage to using either netcat or ssh?
Hi,
I want to compare 2 set of dierectories, one is current host, other in remote,
I am tring like this:
diff $HOSTTOBACKUPH:$SOURCEHR $DR_BACKUP_DIR_H/hourly.0
I am getting fowlling error>
diff: ctlrws123:/home/arbuser/temp2/mscdr/sor_d: No such file or directory
how to specify the... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I´m having a problem here. I have a directory that holds many subdirs and files (by many I mean MANY thousands).
What I want to do is make blocks of these files and transfer them block by block to a remote host; but once a given file is already placed in the remote host, the script must... (0 Replies)
Hi all,
i am copying .gz files from production server to development server using
"scp" command.my requirement is after copying .gz files i want to delete old
.gz files(two days back) in development server from production server.
like this way i need to delelte .log ,.z and .dmp files... (3 Replies)
I am trying to write a script that logs into an SMTP server and authenticates as a user or verifies that a user exists. I can do all this from the command line but I don't know how to write a script to do this for me, I login and then the script stops, I'm sure this is some basic principle. ... (3 Replies)
I want to write a script which would run from one host say A and connect to other remote host B and then run rest of commands in that host. I tried connecting from A host to B with SSH but after connecting to host B it just getting me inside Host B command prompt. Rest of the script is not running... (6 Replies)
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We have a centralized UNIX/Solaris server from where we can actually ssh to all other UNIX/Solaris servers...I need to write a script that reside on this centerlized server and do FileSystem monitoring (basically run df -h or -k) of other remote servers and then send an email to me... (6 Replies)
I do a ssh to remote host(A1) from local host(L1). I then ssh to another remote(A2) from A1.
When I do a who -m from A2, I see the "connected from" as "A1".
=> who -m
userid pts/2 2010-03-27 08:47 (A1)
I want to identify who is the local host who initiated the connection to... (3 Replies)
Hi,
Given addresses of 2 remote machines, using a shell script is it possible to
get the state of running processes in "src"
stop all the processes in "src"
exit out of "src"
ssh into "dest"
resume the state of executing processes captured in step 1 in "dest"
Assumption:
"src" is... (3 Replies)
I have a huge directoy(200+ gb) for backup. I want upload the tar file(split files) simultaneous to a remote ftp. (pipeline, stdout, stdin etc.)
I don't want write a data to local hdd. I have a ssd hdd. thanks.
this code doesn't work.( yes i know the problem is split command!)
tar cvzf -... (8 Replies)
Geeks,
Could you please help me out in my script and identify the missing piece. I need to check/get the exit status of a remote command executed on remote host through script and send out an email when process/processes is/are not running on any/all server(s).
Here's the complete... (5 Replies)