AutoSYNC Software User's Guide (Update 17)

HP AutoSYNC User’s Guide—522580-018
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3 One-time Synchronization
This section presents a basic overview of AutoSYNC processing and the various
options available for performing a one-time synchronization of Guardian files.
AutoSYNC also supports the synchronization of OSS files, as described in Section 5,
OSS File Synchronization.
Most of the features described in this section also apply to scheduled synchronization,
described in Section 4, Scheduled Synchronization.
The topics covered in this section are organized as follows:
Overview
SYNCHRONIZE Command
File Sets
Data Transfer and File Replacement
Synchronization Options
Reporting Outcome of the Synchronization
Preserving Security Attributes on the Destination
Overview
The basic operation of AutoSYNC is to copy files from a source location to a
destination location, if a difference exists between the files in the two locations.
Synchronization is unidirectional; files in the source are not changed. Configuring
symmetric synchronizations (from A to B and, concurrently, from B to A) is not
recommended as a standard practice. AutoSYNC will not detect or coordinate
processing of symmetric synchronizations.
To synchronize files to a remote destination, AutoSYNC must be installed and licensed
on both systems. The monitor process also must be running on both systems and have
the same process name. Both systems must run the same version of AutoSYNC.
SYNCHRONIZE Command
The SYNCHRONIZE command performs a synchronization immediately. See
SYNCHRONIZE
on page 8-96 for the complete command syntax:
SYNCHRONIZE source-file-set TO dest-file-set [, options ];