Hi David, I think Rsync is your answer. You can use it on both boxes. It will keep the directories in sync without moving all 53K files each time.
Win32: http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DeltaCopy.jsp *nix: http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/ Kind Regards, Chris On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:53 AM, David Schuster <dschu...@tx.rr.com> wrote: > > I also see this line in the .pl file > > ##example -- > perl loadimages.pl -i IDLINK.txt -l image.log -d > "/home/pisd/dataload/pics/" > > so if there was a way to link the the sharefile and not actually scp the > files over that would be way cool. > > > David Schuster wrote: > > > > I have 53,000 students and a windows server in another building that I > > have a fileshare to. What would be the recommended way to copy those > > files over and load them into Koha? > > > > I have tried scp * but the problem is that it only copies what 2000 at a > > time and then dies. > > > > I'm a librarian looking for an easy solution without lots of programming. > > > > So here was my thought: > > > > build a cron > > first make the fileshare connection > > then issue several scp statements to copy the files over to the local > > server > > then issue the command to batch load them > > > > I have a command line utility that someone gave me to batch load > pictures. > > I'll find someone to send it to for testing with 3.2. Next task... > > > > Thoughts? Comments - is there an easier way? > > > > manually I have copied the files over and run this command to load them I > > believe the utility is assuming the files are in the same directory: > > > > ./loadimages.sh - which issues perl loadimages.pl -i IDLINK.txt -l > > image.log > > > > from the loadimages.pl file - > > > > my(%count,$input_file,$error_file,$log_file,$sepchar,$imagedirectory); > > $imagedirectory = ""; > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/cron-job-for-loading-pictures-or-better-option-tp27243930p27243973.html > Sent from the Koha - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > Koha-devel mailing list > Koha-devel@lists.koha.org > http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel >
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