I just discovered wget while looking for a solution to an upcoming
problem. I was hoping someone on the list might be able to help me with
configuring wget. Here's the problem.
I have a ship at sea that will have 24/7 network connectivity via
C-band satellite comm. The bandwidth is 2Mb/sec (I am not sure how
reliable the C-band comm will be). The ship is collecting real-time
bathymetric/hydrographic/oceanographic data at a much lower rate (for
the data in which I am interested). Data files are appended to until
the file names are changed, generally at the end of a survey line. I
would like to mirror some of the collected data to a Linux system
inhouse but, for those files that are open and being appended to, I
don't want to resend the entire file, just the portion that I don't
have. So, the directories that I want to mirror will consist of closed
files and files that are being appended to. From reading the
documentation for wget it appears that it is possible to do this. I was
thinking in terms of checking for new data every 10-15 minutes. I have
root privileges on all the machines on the ship and inhouse. Can anyone
help me with configuring wget to do this?
V/R
Jan C. Depner
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Jan 'Evil Twin' Depner
Biscuit and the Blues Bakers
http://www.mp3.com/bluesbakers
