NAME

       arcsync - ARC Synchronize

DESCRIPTION

       The  arcsync  command  synchronizes your local jobs list with the information at a given cluster or index
       server.

SYNOPSIS

       arcsync [options]

OPTIONS

       -c, --cluster=name
              select one or more computing elements: name can be an alias for a single CE, a group of CEs  or  a
              URL

       -g, --index=name
              select  one  or more registries: name can be an alias for a single registry, a group of registries
              or a URL

       -j, --joblist=filename
              the file storing information about active jobs (default ~/.arc/jobs.xml)

       -f, --force
              don't ask for verification

       -T, --truncate
              shrinks the joblist before synchronizing

       -C, --convert
              instead of pulling jobs information from server read it from jobs storage and write it back.  This
              option is mostly for converting format of jobs storage file.

       -P, --listplugins
              list the available plugins

       -t, --timeout=seconds
              timeout in seconds (default 20)

       -z, --conffile=filename
              configuration file (default ~/.arc/client.conf)

       -d, --debug=debuglevel
              FATAL, ERROR, WARNING, INFO, VERBOSE or DEBUG

       -v, --version
              print version information

       -?, --help
              print help

EXTENDED DESCRIPTION

       The  ARC user interface keeps a local list 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 the specified cluster or index server.

       Since the information about a job retrieved from a cluster can be slightly out of date if the  user  very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.

       The --cluster options can be used to  select  or  reject  clusters  that  should  be  considered  in  the
       synchronization.  This  options  can  be  repeated  several times.  See arcsub(1) for a discussion of the
       format of arguments to this option.

       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.xml
              This  is  a local list of the user's active jobs. When a job is successfully submitted it is added
              to this list and when it is removed from the remote cluster it is removed  from  this  list.  This
              list  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.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       X509_USER_PROXY
              The location of the user's Grid proxy file. Shouldn't be set unless the proxy is in a non-standard
              location.

       ARC_LOCATION
              The  location  where  ARC  is  installed  can  be specified by this variable. If not specified the
              install location will be determined from the path to the command being executed, and if this fails
              a WARNING will be given stating the location which will be used.

       ARC_PLUGIN_PATH
              The location of ARC plugins can be specified by this variable. Multiple locations can be specified
              by separating them by : (; in Windows).  The  default  location  is  $ARC_LOCATION/lib/arc  (\  in
              Windows).

COPYRIGHT

       APACHE LICENSE Version 2.0

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), arcresub(1), arcresume(1), arcrm(1), arcstat(1), arcsub(1), arctest(1)

NorduGrid ARC 6.18.0                               2024-08-25                                         ARCSYNC(1)