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I want to copy my archive logs to another server through ftp. From the other server I want the archive logs to be gzipped and then copy the gzip files to a DR(disaster recovery server) server(through ftp) which is situated in a remote location. I also want to check the continuity of those files(whether everything is successfully copied (from the oracle server to other server and to DR server after being gzipped) and ensure that they don't lost in transit.
Please provide me a script(s) which can do such tasks.
Os - Solaris on sparc system(M5000)
Oracle - 10.2 64 Bit
Please reply.
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by: yuzhPosted on 2008-08-28 at 01:38:31ID: 22332550
I suggest you to use rsync to do the job, it is a better solution for the task. you can download the binary package of RSYNC from:
http://sunfreeware.com/
please read the download readme file and install all the depandencies
To learn more details:
http://rsync.samba.org/
examples:
http://rsync.samba.org/exa
PS: rsync does error checking
If you still want to use ftp, here's an example script:
#!/bin/ksh
# gizp the file to be transfer
cd /path-to/mylog
gzip -c mylog > mylog.gz
# now ftp mylog.gz to another machine
{ echo "
open myfileserver
user login-name password
lcd /path-to-dir-to-put-file
bi
put myfile.gz
quit
"
} | ftp -ind 2>&1 | tee /path-to/ftp_session.log
# clean up the .gz file
rm mylog.gz
exit
# End of script
check /path-to/ftp_session.log to the FTP transaction.
another version of the script
http:Q_23210465.html