Check if remote destination is available before running scp command
I have a script on a Linux box which scp the files to windows server without any issues. but there are time frames where the windows server will not be available due to maintenance. hence I need to check if the remote location is available before running the scp command.
I tried with ssh command to check if remote directory exists but does not work and get the error message below
Hi,
I am trying to write a script, which queries a db to get the names of processes, stores it in a file and then checks if that process is running on a remote server. However I am not getting it right, could anyone help me out.
#!/bin/sh
echo "select Address from Device where Cust =... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I have username/password for a remote server. I would like to have list of filenames and their size in a particular directory of remote server.
Now Problem is - I can not use rsh command as I can not modify rhost file of remote server.
Thanks in advance.
Sanjay (1 Reply)
Hi,
When i run the code in solaris unix machine, the file from remote server is getting downloaded. but when i use the same code in IBM AIX remote machine, it is not running. It is saying "Erro during scp transfer." Below is the code.
Please give some resolution.
SCPClient client = new... (1 Reply)
Hi ,
How to check whether web server is running from remote machine
How to check whether web server is running on web server itself
Can any one help me soon (1 Reply)
Hi,
i have a shellscript, where in i need to connect to different server start these three jobs and exit from the server and start the same three jobs on local server.
ssh user@remotehost 'bash -s' << EOF
${GETT_HOME}/bin/start1 &
sleep 10
${GETT_HOME}/bin/start2 &
sleep 10... (1 Reply)
I am using the below command to scp the file to destination server ($server).
The ssh keys have been created between the source and destination servers. Still I am getting password authentication after executing the below scp command:
scp $Local_dir/$file_pattern* $username@$server:/$ftp_dir/... (1 Reply)
I am having an issue in running a nohup command in a remote linux box from a linux box. Here are the details.
Linux Machine 1: I have a script which starts a services and dumps the output into a log file.
nohup sh weblogic.sh >> /home/log.out &
I have placed the entire command in a... (2 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)
Hello Guys,
I need some help to find out if processes are running on remote server or not. I could do 'ssh' to do that but due to some security reasons, I need to avoid the ssh & get result from remote server.
Could you please suggest some that can be done without ssh or similar sort of... (8 Replies)
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backup-manager-upload
BACKUP-MANAGER-UPLOAD(8) backup-manager-upload BACKUP-MANAGER-UPLOAD(8)NAME
backup-manager-upload - Multiprotocol uploader for backup-manager.
SYNOPSIS
backup-manager-upload [options] date
DESCRIPTION
backup-manager-upload will upload all the archives generated on the given date to the specified host with either ftp or scp. It's also
possible to use this program for uploading data to an Amazon S3 account. Some metadates are available like "today" or "yesterday".
REQUIRED ARGS --mode=transfer-mode
Select the transfer mode to use : ftp, scp, or s3.
--host=hostname1,hostname2,...,hostnameN
Select a list of remote hosts to connect to.
--user=username
Select the user to use for connection.
OPTIONAL ARGS --password=password
Select the ftp user's password (only needed for ftp transfers).
--key=path_to_private_key
Select the ssh private key file to use when opening the ssh session for scp transfer. Obviously, this is only needed for scp transfer
mode. If you don't specify a key file, the user's default private key will be used.
--directory=directory
Select the location on the remote host where files will be uploaded. Default is /backup/uploads.
--bucket=bucket
Sets the bucket name for the Amazon S3 service backup into.
--root=directory
Select the local directory where files are. Default is /var/archives
--gpg-recipient=gpg-recipient
Select the gpg public key for encryptiong the archives when uploading with the method ssh-gpg. This can be a short or long key id or a
descriptive name. The precise syntax is described in the gpg man page.
--list
Just list the files to upload.
--ftp-purge
Purge the remote directory before uploading files in FTP mode.
--s3-purge
Purge the remote directory before uploading files in FTP mode.
--ssh-purge
Purge the remote directory before uploading files in SSH mode.
--verbose
Flag to enable verbose mode.
date
Date pattern to select some files to upload, can be a valid date (YYYYMMDD) or 'today' or 'yesterday'.
ERROR CODES
If something goes wrong during an upload, backup-manager-upload will exit with a non null value. In such a case every error messages are
sent to STDERR.
Here are the possible error codes:
bad command line (wrong arguments) : 10
FTP transfer failure : 20
SCP transfer failure : 21
S3 transfer failure : 22
Unknown upload method: 23
SEE ALSO backup-manager(3)AUTHORS
Alexis Sukrieh - main code and design
Brad Dixon - Amazon S3 upload method
Jan Metzger - ssh-gpg upload method
perl v5.14.2 2012-05-09 BACKUP-MANAGER-UPLOAD(8)