hi all,

at work i have a real boring job sometimes of when a new project folder is ready to be archived i have to do the following

tar the project folder

rsync the .tar file to a remote directory

remove the tar file

remove the project folder

i would like to make this all automatic

i want to automate the whole process but i want to make a watch folder on linux, so when the watch folder has got a project folder in it, it does all the above so

is this possible

cheers,

rob

Yes, it is possible. What have you done so far?

i havnt started yet, atm im manually doing it

Which part is causing you to pause?
#!/bin/bash
tar stuff
rsync stuff
rm file
rm directory

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lets say i have loads of projects in the "to_be_archived" folder like

superman/

batman/

spiderman/

hulk/

iron_man/

etc, etc...

but my script looks like this

#!/bin/bash

cd /to_be_archived/

tar -cf superman.tar superman/

rsync -avh superman.tar /archived_projects/

rm -f superman.tar

rm -rf superman/

now superman is done i want it to do the next folder down then so forth and so on

for this do i need to add a variable

and after they rsync the project of i want to double check if it has actually rsynced before deleting it as if i delete it and it hasnt worked, im in the bad books

getting there

#!/bin/bash
cd /to_be_archived/
for DIR in * ; do
fSaveDir="${DIR##*/}"
tar -cf "${fSaveDir}".tar "${fSaveDir}"
rsync -a "${fSaveDir}".tar /archived_projects/
rm -f "${fSaveDir}".tar
rm -rf "${fSaveDir}"
done

Not familiar with rsync, but maybe it has a return code to let you know if it was successful before deleting the file.

Also, you may want to wrap your code with CODE tag for readability.

rsync has a remove source option.

rsync dry-run is Try using

job done -

#!/bin/bash
cd /to_be_archived/
for DIR in * ; do
fSaveDir="${DIR##*/}"
tar -cf "${fSaveDir}".tar "${fSaveDir}"
rsync -a "${fSaveDir}".tar /archived_projects/
if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
mail -s "${fSaveDir}" robertw@molinare.co.uk <<< "project "${fSaveDir}" aborted due to error"
else
rm -f "${fSaveDir}".tar
rm -rf "${fSaveDir}"
fi
done

great!
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