Hello there,


This is my first proper install of Linux for a job.

Have a situation where there is 2 Linux servers.

Server 1 = Redhat 7.2 - 192.168.0.1
Server 2 = Redhat 9.0 - 192.168.0.3

Both have been setup with Samba, no network problems.
Server 1 has been installed before my time.
Server 2 is a new server which has just been installed.

Basically we want to copy the home and a shared directory
from Server2 to a new created shared directory on Server1 so it can grab the data onto Server1 backup tapes using Arkeia.

Is there a way to accomplish this and perhaps make this an automated routine with crontab.

That's all I can think of the moment to describe the situation.
Please ask if you need any more info and I do my best to anwser them.



Thanks for you time in advance.

it is possible, and i think the easiest way to do it is with either scp (which will copy files with the ssh protocol), or FTP

for SCP:

scp (path to file on local machine) root@otheripaddress:(path on remote machine)

this can be interesting and sometimes tedious with pathname expansion and such.

FTP:
the easiest way i think to do it
set up a user that has a home directory of the files you want to copy using

useradd username -d (path to files on local machine)
then do
passwd username

make sure vsftpd is running by running
"service vsftpd start" as root

log into that machine with an ftp client and then drag and drop if you are using gftp

if u need further clarification, lemme know

:-D

adam wenner

Hey adamwenner,

Thanks very very much for your reply, I was getting worried that no one was replying. Will definetely give it go.

Monday is the start of another week and hopefully of success


The scp suggestions seems alot clearer and easier for me to try first.
As there is only about 4 users on the new server and I think I have setup the directory structure quite simple

So following your advice

e.g.

scp /home/user1 root@192.168.0.1/shareddirectory.
scp /home/user2 root@192.168.0.1/shareddirectory.


They will only be storing word, excel docs. so hopefully the above commands will grab the whole home users directories.

Sounds like once those commands work, I could add those commands to some of script to automate it. But that will be next step in figuring how to create them for linux.



Will keep this posted.

Thanks again.
Guerin

your commands would be

scp /home/user1 root@192.168.0.1:/shareddirectory
scp /home/user2 root@192.168.0.1:/shareddirectory

make sure you use the colons after the machines address, or it will not work


if this does not work, you may have to do

scp /home/user1/* root@192.168.0.1:/shareddirectory
scp /home/user2/* root@192.168.0.1:/shareddirectory

using the /* to specify the files inside the directory instead of just the directories




now that i am taking a linux class and starting to learn more about linux, i am starting to go into these forums and look for topics that have no replies and take a stab at them

Just thought I keep this posted.

Haven't had much time to give this 100% as I really like to. so many interruptions when you don't need it.


Had a little problems with the RSA key authorization at first when trying the
scp commands suggested above. It was not wanting to connect at all between the 2 PC's but researching up I found
this article. Which is almost what I would like to achieve in my situation.

http://linuxgazette.com/node/view/193

Follow some of the instruction and So far I can connect to each others but still requires a password to copy through.

Will have to think it through so more.


Thanks to adamwenner for pointing me in the write direction of scp.


Will continue to keep this posted once fully successful.

the RSA key authentication should pop up when you attempt to connect the two pc's, it should ask yes or no to continue connecting

if there is a problem with the RSA and it says "offending key", just clear out the ~/.ssh/known_hosts (i think) file

ive never used passwordless authentication yet, so good luck