NAME

       gfal-bringonline - Perform a staging operation on the given SURL

SYNOPSIS

       gfal-bringonline [ OPTION ]...  FILE

DESCRIPTION

       gfal-bringonline  This  command  performs  a  staging operation on the given SURL. A bringonline token is
       returned if the staging request is successful. In addition, if the polling timeout is greater than 0  the
       command  blocks for polling the status of the staging request and only returns when the file is online or
       the timeout expires.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
              show help about the command.

       -V, --version
              output version information and exit.

       -v, --verbose
              verbose mode. Repeat up to 3 times for the most verbose mode.

       -D, --definition DEFINITION
              define properties for gfal2. Definitions have the following syntax: "CONFIG_GROUP:KEY=VALUE"

       -t, --timeout TIMEOUT
              global timeout for the execution of the command. Command is interrupted if time expires before  it
              finishes. Note: A grace period of 30 seconds is given to the global timeout.

       -E, --cert CERT
              user  certificate.  (This  option takes effect only after X509_USER_PROXY environment variable and
              default /tmp/x509up_u`id -u` location cannot provide a certificate)

       --key KEY
              user private key.

       -4     forces Gfal2 to use IPv4 addresses only. (Option valid only for GridFTP protocol)

       -6     forces Gfal2 to use IPv6 addresses only. (Option valid only for GridFTP protocol)

       -C, --client-info CLIENT_INFO
              provide custom client-side information.

       --log-file LOG_FILE
              write Gfal2 library logs to the given file location.

       --pin-lifetime
              Desired pin lifetime

       --desired-request-time
              Desired total request time

       --staging-metadata
              Metadata for the bringonline operation --from-file FROM_FILE read list of surls from a file.

       --polling-timeout
              The timeout for the polling operation. If a polling timeout greater than 0 is provided the command
              blocks for polling the status of the staging request and only returns when the file is on disk  or
              the timeout expires.

EXAMPLES

       gfal-bringonline http://endpoint.cern.ch/path/file --polling-timeout=3600

FILES

       /etc/gfal2.d/*
              All configuration files in this directory affect the behavior of the underlying gfal2.

AUTHORS

       Duarte Meneses <duarte.meneses@cern.ch>
       Adrien Devresse <adrien.devresse@cern.ch>
       Alejandro Alvarez Ayllon <alejandro.alvarez.ayllon@cern.ch>
       Mihai Patrascoiu <mihai.patrascoiu@cern.ch>
       Joao Lopes <joao.pedro.batista.lopes@cern.ch>

SEE ALSO

       gfal-cat(1),  gfal-chmod(1),  gfal-copy(1),  gfal-ls(1), gfal-mkdir(1), gfal-rename(1), gfal-rm(1), gfal-
       save(1), gfal-stat(1), gfal-sum(1),  gfal-token(1),  gfal-xattr(1),  gfal-evict(1),  gfal-bringonline(1),
       gfal-archivepoll(1)

v1.8.0                                              May 2022                                 GFAL-BRINGONLINE(1)