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ARC Synchronize

Description

Usage

arcsync [OPTION...]

The arcsync command synchronizes your local job list with the information at the given CEs or registry servers.

Target endpoint selection

-C,  --computing-element=ce

computing element hostname or a complete endpoint URL

-Y,  --registry=registry

registry service URL with optional specification of protocol

Behaviour tuning

-f,  --force

do not ask for verification

-T,  --truncate

truncate the joblist before synchronizing

-j,  --joblist=filename

the file storing information about active jobs (default /builddir/.arc/jobs.dat)

--no-authentication

do not perform any authentication for opened connections

--x509-authentication

perform X.509 authentication for opened connections

--token-authentication

perform token authentication for opened connections

--systemca

force using CA certificates configuration provided by OpenSSL

--gridca

force using CA certificates configuration for Grid services (typically IGTF)

Other actions

--convert

do not collect information, only convert jobs storage format

-P,  --listplugins

list the available plugins

Application Options

-h,  --help

Show help options

-z,  --conffile=filename

configuration file (default ~/.arc/client.conf)

-t,  --timeout=seconds

timeout in seconds (default 20)

-d,  --debug=debuglevel

FATAL, ERROR, WARNING, INFO, VERBOSE or DEBUG

-v,  --version

print version information

Extended Description

The ARC CLI keeps a local database of active jobs in the users home directory (see arcsub(1)). If this file is lost, or the user wants to recreate the file on a different computer, the arcsync command can be used to recreate the file from the information available at the specified computing element or registry.

Since the information about a job retrieved from a CE can be slightly out of date if the user very recently submitted or removed a job a warning is issued when this command is run. The --force option disables this warning.

If the joblist is not empty when invoking synchronization the old jobs will be merged with the new jobs, unless the --truncate option is given, in which case the joblist will first be cleaned of old jobs and then the new jobs will be added.

Files

~/.arc/client.conf

Some options can be given default values by specifying them in the ARC client configuration file. By using the --conffile option a different configuration file can be used than the default.

~/.arc/jobs.dat

This a local database of the user's active jobs. When a job is successfully submitted it is added to database and when it is removed from the remote CE it is removed from this list. This database is used as the list of all active jobs when the user specifies the --all option to the various NorduGrid ARC user interface commands. By using the --joblist option a different file can be used than the default.

Author

ARC software is developed by the NorduGrid Collaboration  (http://www.nordugrid.org), please consult the AUTHORS file distributed with  ARC. Please report bugs and feature requests to http://bugzilla.nordugrid.org

See Also

arccat(1), arcclean(1), arccp(1), arcget(1), arcinfo(1), arckill(1), arcls(1), arcmkdir(1), arcproxy(1), arcrenew(1), arcresume(1), arcrm(1), arcstat(1), arcsub(1), arctest(1)

Referenced By

arccat(1), arcclean(1), arcget(1), arcinfo(1), arckill(1), arcproxy(1), arcrenew(1), arcresume(1), arcstat(1), arcsub(1), arctest(1).

April 2025 arcsync version 7.0.0