Owner's manual

HP AutoSYNC User’s Guide—522580-015
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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
.
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 system, 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 8-92 for the complete command syntax:
File Sets
The file sets describe the collection of files to be synchronized. A file set is a standard
file pattern, such as \MYSYS.$DATA*.OBJ*.SERV*. There are a few restrictions on the
source and destination file sets.
Source file set
The source file set must describe only local files. If the file set contains a node name
(for example \NEWYORK), the node name must be the local node.
Destination file set
The destination may be either on the local node or a remote node. If the destination is
the local node, no node name is required. If the destination is a remote node, the
destination node must be a valid Expand node name.
SYNCHRONIZE source-file-set TO dest-file-set [, options ];