09-17-2007
Copy a file to multiple hosts
Hi,
I need to copy a file ( say 1MB file ) to multiple hosts( no of machines is huge).
What would be the most optimal way of doing it with minimal user intervention ?
Thanks,
Sumit
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parallel-scp
PARALLEL-SCP(1) PARALLEL-SCP(1)
NAME
parallel-scp - parallel versions of scp
SYNOPSIS
parallel-scp [OPTIONS] -h hosts.txt local remote
DESCRIPTION
pssh provides a number of commands for executing against a group of computers, using SSH. It's most useful for operating on clusters of
homogenously-configured hosts.
parallel-scp copy files in parallel to a set of machines.
OPTIONS
-r --recursive
recusively copy directories (OPTIONAL)
-h --hosts
hosts file (each line "host[:port] [user]")
-l --user
username (OPTIONAL)
-p --par
max number of parallel threads (OPTIONAL)
-o --outdir
output directory for stdout files (OPTIONAL)
-e --errdir
output directory for stderr files (OPTIONAL)
-t --timeout
timeout (secs) (-1 = no timeout) per host (OPTIONAL)
-O --options
SSH options (OPTIONAL)
-v --verbose
turn on warning and diagnostic messages (OPTIONAL)
EXAMPLE
The following example runs hostname on three machines (IPs or hostnames) specified in the file ips.txt using login irb2 and saves the
output in /tmp/foo.
# parallel-scp -h ips.txt -l irb2 /etc/hosts /tmp/hosts
Success on 128.112.152.122:22
Success on 18.31.0.190:22
Success on 128.232.103.201:22
ENVIRONMENT
All four programs take similar sets of options. All of these options can be set using the following environment variables:
o PSSH_HOSTS
o PSSH_USER
o PSSH_PAR
o PSSH_OUTDIR
o PSSH_VERBOSE
o PSSH_OPTIONS
SEE ALSO
parallel-ssh(1), parallel-slurp(1), parallel-nuke(1), parallel-rsync(1), ssh(1), scp(1),
AUTHOR
Brent N. Chun <bnc@theether.org>
COPYING
Copyright: 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Brent N. Chun
NOTES
1. bnc@theether.org
mailto:bnc@theether.org
03/30/2009 PARALLEL-SCP(1)