Well you dont want to do copy on creation because the file is still being uploaded.
Just use rsync on a cron. And you want to go off of mtime for rsync. -- Trevor On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Chris Penn <cantorm...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have 2 people uploading photos (from syria) to a server in the U.S. > (~/photo/), via ssh, all under the same user (u...@server.com). Users > are using either scp or filezilla to upload images. I would like to > mirror/sync this folder to another folder in ~/ so that a copy of each > file placed in ~/photo/ is put into another folder, i.e., > ~/photo_bak/, say at creation of the file. > > Note: there is no need to monitor the files for changes, I just want a > direct copy of the file put into the other folder upon creation. I am > not root on this server but I can write scripts, crontab, most > terminal applications etc (shared hosting). > > Any ideas on how to accomplish this are welcome. > > > Chris... > > -- > "As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to > be continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity." > -Roger Penrose > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > LinuxUsers@socallinux.org > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list LinuxUsers@socallinux.org http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
