Use robocopy.exe.
It's a standard Windows tool, directly available from Microsoft. It's
fully scriptable, and does everything you need. Together with "psexec"
(also from Microsoft Sysinternals), you can even call it remotely.
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[
mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mark S. Waterbury
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 6:18 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Best way to synch. Windows server directory with IFS on
iSeries?
Hi, all:
One of my clients asked about this.
Assuming they want to maintain a "master copy" of various PC files for
some of their own client-server apps. (could be written in VB, C++, or
anything that compiles to .exe or .dll files, or even Java .class or
.jar files) ...
They want to "deploy" from the iSeries "master copy" to one or more
Windows servers, into a like-named directory structure, so that the
client PCs can then access this shared copy of these files via a
standard Windows server network "share."
What are the "best practices" for this kind of scenario?
(They would prefer to use existing (or "free") software vs. recommending
some vendor product(s) that must be purchased and installed, etc.)
NOTE: perhaps this could be triggered based on whenever file(s) in the
IFS are added or changed, or it could be set-up to run on a "scheduled"
basis (e.g. Windows scheduler), and just copy all new or changed files
at that time.
Thanks in advance for any advice or suggestions.
Mark
midrange.com
