technote:netcat:linux_sync
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Executing Sync Using Netcat
Prerequisites
- root or sudo privileges to install software and scripts.
- Knowledge of using vi or similar to create and enable scripts
- Netcat installed on your system, to check run the command
ncat –version - tcp access to the server TapeTrack database and Sync is installed on
- xinetd installed on the server TapeTrack database and Sync is installed on
- Knowledge on how to extract the Volume data from your backup server (eg TSM, NetBackup)
Setting Up Sending Server
Create a script (eg run-remote-sync.sh) on your sending server, with executable permissions.
Add the required code to extract the Volume data to be Sync'd with your TapeTrack (receiving) Server into a text or CSV file.
vmquery -W -a > report.txt
Add the call Netcat, including the IP address and Port of the receiving server, along with the input data file
nc XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX < ./report.txt
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