01-22-2010
Problems using RCP with symlinks. Trying to use CPIO instead
Hello,
I have inherited an old Solaris box and I have to copy all of its files onto another machine, a Centos Box. The Solaris box it so ancient is does not have rsync, scp or any other useful copy functions. I tried using RCP but it handles symlinks terribly: Extraneous data is written to my Cenots box prematurely filling it up. I am left with no free space on the hard drive to copy over the other required data from the Solaris box.
I have read that using cpio inconjunction with rsh will make for a smoother transfer. I am reading the manpages but need some help written the appropriate command. Can someone tell me the syntax for using cpio with rsh to transfer data over from one hard drive to another over a network please?
Thanks!
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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
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NOTES
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mailto:bnc@theether.org
03/30/2009 PARALLEL-SCP(1)