I have 2 servers. One is at the main location and the other is off-site. I need to do a scheduled job to copy the entire contents of the server at the main location to the server at the off-site location. I thought I had it, but it isn't working properly, so I need to start from scratch. I keep getting "permissions denied" or "file doesn't exist" messages. If I get the permissions denied, then I have to go to the main server and chmod the file. If I get a file or destination doesn't exist, it's because the remote server doesn't have that subdirectory yet.

Also, the main server is Red Hat 9 and the remote servers are either Red Hat 9 or Centos...if that helps...

What can I do? PLEASE HELP!!

Years ago I was in a similar situation. A local guru was working with cpio. Man this on your system. It may be of help.

Good luck

I'm just trying to basically backup a server's directory to another server by scheduling a copy. Does the cpio look for archive files? I just need to copy any files that have been modified since the last copy, etc... Does this make sense?

why dont you just create a cron job to run a bash script that uses rsync to copy the incremental changes as needed if permissions are a different user on the other system you can do this too in rysnc.
learn rsync using man rsync

I hope your not using redhat 9 its extremely old and full of bugs and exploit's please use something more up to date.
look at fedora or redhat enterprise its cheap

So if I am looking at this correctly it would say as follows:

rsync /test/dsk01 joe@remoteserver:/test/dsk01

What are the "OPTION"? Are these switches like you'd use in DOS (ie: xcopy test\*.* e:\test1\*.* /d /e /f) telling the program just to do files that are newer, subdirectories, etc...?

How do I create a cron job to run a bash script and how do I create a bash script?

I know it's alot to probably ask, but I'm new at this and need some help.

BTW-The servers currently are RH9, but we are converting to a newer OS. I just takes time.

I would make sure those rh9 servers are not on the internet at all or accessible if they are they are extremely dangerous.


rsync has many options you need to find which ones fit your needs.
use man rsync to learn more

http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/

If you are that new to Linux, you'll find this invaluable: http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz

but in short
1. to create a cron job:
login as root
crontab -e (will open root's crontab)
add job with the timing params (see here http://www.adminschoice.com/docs/cro...Crontab%20file ) ie location of your rsync cmd (shell) file eg /root/my_rsync.sh

2. create a shell file (aka cmd file)
you'll need to learn an editor eg kate, gedit, vim etc

btw, the default editor for the crontab will probably be vi/vim, so learn the basics of that anyway, it's the default Unix editor.

Keep posting qns here...

Other good links: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/...ndows_software
http://linux.oneandoneis2.org/LNW.htm

So do I use vi to create a file like mybak.bas and then do I need to compile it into a mybak.cmd? If so, how do I do that?

No, you don't compile them. A shell script is similar to a
.bat or .cmd in windows. They get executed by the shell
(command processor in windows).


Cheers,
Tink

I am understanding rsync now, but I'm getting the following error when try to connect to a remote server.

I do the following:

rsync -av /vm/miame/dsk01/ user@192.168.0.189:vm/miame/dsk01

And this happens:

backupsvr.localhost.localdomain: Connection refused
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes read so far)
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(150)


PLEASE...SOMEONE HELP!! I'm sure I'm really close, but i need hlpe as to why it's not even asking me for a password. I can ssh into the remote server from the local server also with no problem.

OK. I think I found that I need to install the remote server as a rsync server. I create a rsync.conf file in /etc. Then when I try to run /etc/init.d/rsyncd start it says file not found. Do I need to install this module? How do I do this on RedHat9 and CentOS?

Ok. I've gotten it to start, but now I get a broken pipe error. What is that?

Hi.

Why don't you run the script on the server that needs to be updated, that way you are not pushing changes. Instead have the 2nd machine pull changes and deletions from the 1st server.

Here is an example for a backing up an asterisk voicemail directory.

Note the above needs to be on one line, very well could be your broken pipe error message.

I use ssh-keypairs to allow secure unattended backups without using a plain text password stored in the script, in this example is also the use of the .exclude file to allow certain items to be excluded during the backup.

hth

That works. I am having a small problem. I think the last one. There is server1 and server2. On both servers there is a /vm/miame/dsk01. When I pull the info with the following:

rsync -av --timeout=999 -e ssh user01@192.168.0.199:/vm/miame/dsk01 /vm/miame/dsk01

This creates a dsk01 directory in /vm/miame/dsk01 on server2. So instead of having the contents on server2 to be in /vm/miame/dsk01, it's in /vm/miame/dsk01/dsk01. I can't seem to see what I'm doing wrong...again.

Please help. Thanks to all for their help.

That would be

hth