I would look into using incron - it uses inotify to detect a number of filesystem related events and act on them however you tell it to.
-pat On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Trevor Benedict <mre...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >
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