I want your opinion people about this issue
We have 3 X Risc machines AIX UNIX
I am running Oracle9i on AIX RAC with 2Nodes (RS1 and RS2)
with archive mode, each oracle instant creates his own archive logs
on the first machine RS1 it creates logs1*.arc
rs1:/archive1# ls -al
-rw-r----- 1 oracle dba 104852480 Feb 19 15:37 log11740.arc
-rw-r----- 1 oracle dba 104857088 Feb 19 15:38 log11741.arc
-rw-r----- 1 oracle dba 104855040 Feb 19 15:39 log11742.arc
-rw-r----- 1 oracle dba 104856576 Feb 21 15:22 log11743.arc
-rw-r----- 1 oracle dba 23519744 Feb 23 14:32 log11744.arc
.......

and on the RS2 it creates logs2*.arc
rs2:/archive2# ls -al
-rw-r----- 1 oracle dba 104857088 Feb 25 12:59 log21271.arc
-rw-r----- 1 oracle dba 104849408 Feb 25 15:16 log21272.arc
-rw-r----- 1 oracle dba 47743488 Feb 25 15:31 log21273.arc
-rw-r----- 1 oracle dba 104857088 Feb 26 12:45 log21274.arc
-rw-r----- 1 oracle dba 104857088 Feb 26 14:41 log21275.arc
-rw-r----- 1 oracle dba 65959936 Feb 26 16:09 log21276.arc
.....

1- I want at the end of day to FTP the above files from each server
to standby AIX server rs3 to /backup folder
this folder will contain all the logs from both servers
2- now the part of file comparsion, if the logs1*.arc and logs2*.arc already exist (the same serial no. on source and destination) on the /backup folder the script should check up for the size of the simillar files
if this log files on the /backup folder less than the orginal one .. then it should be FTP it again, if not then skip the FTP and look for another file
3- After the script has been run successfully on both server RS1 and
and RS2 ...then it should give a report of wich files has been created
with there size..

All AIX server using KornShell as shell interface.
This FTP will be managed by oracle user

I started with this script

$host=192.168.0.1
$username=testuser
$passwd=testpwd
$file=log$seq.arc
$logdir=/archive1

#===begin ftp part===
ftp -i -n <<EOF
open $host
user $username $passwd
lcd $logdir
put $file
bye
EOF

I need some hints to end the script
I am really tired from FTP it manually

I was thinking with this solution too
find /archiveX -mtime -2 -exec rcp -p {} rsX:/backup \; # Copy all files that changed in the last 2 days;
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I am not if the above command would do what I want .

Or any other solution might be helpful

What you thik about it?


Thanks