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Old 04-01-2009
FTP Files from one server to another
Hi,

I want to run a process on server a, pulling files from server b and pushing it to server c.

Can i do that without dropping the files on server a?

Thanks,
Samit
Last edited by samit_9999; 04-01-2009 at 01:38 PM..
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Old 04-01-2009
Not ftp - look into scp instead.
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Old 04-01-2009
As Jim said, scp (secure copy). It functions much the same as copy and even has the "preserve" option (dash-p) so the transfered files maintain their original date/time stamp, permissions, etc.

Say you want to copy files whose names include today's date-stamp in /nas1/prod/data of node "penguin" to /nas3/dev/data of node "seal" and you are on irrelevant server. Your user ID is samit on penguin and s99 on seal. Oh, and you want to preserve the file attributes of the source files. Here's what you would type:
Code:
irrelevant$ scp -p samit@penguin:/nas1/prod/data/*20090401* s99@seal:/nas3/dev/data

 
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