Not sure that will trigger if their session gets disconnected or not. rsync is pretty fast and low cpu, it will only copy on new files. - Trevor
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 8:19 AM, Chris Penn <cantorm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thankx Trevor and Adam. > > I had considered rsync -avzru with cron but my initial thought was to > avoid unnecessary rsync-ing. Ultimately rsync might be the way I go > about this, I was just thinking there might be something else. Im > thinking about using nohup on login to rsync -vru on logout. Then I > could just tell the users that the stuff is backed up when they > logout. > > > > Chris... > > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Adam Flaig <adamfl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I agree with Trevor >> >> rsync -avzru /home/user/photo /home/user/photo_bak >> >> http://linux.die.net/man/1/rsync >> >> run it in cron >> >> you may want to log the output somewhere so you can go back at any time and >> validate that it is still working. >> >> careful not to fill up /home >> >> >> >> Adam Flaig >> >> "I'll just say what's in my heart: 'Ba-bump, ba-bump, ba-bump.' " >> -- Mel Brooks >> >> >> >> >> >> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Trevor Benedict <mre...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> 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 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> LinuxUsers mailing list >> LinuxUsers@socallinux.org >> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >> > > > > -- > "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
