[SOLVED] how to tranfer file @ boot via ftp on raspbian?

Hello,
I installed a camera on my raspberry pi.
It takes pictures via "motion" and avi files are created inn /home/pi/motion/video . you can find a good HowTo here http://jankarres.de/2013/12/raspberr...tion-tracking/
At each boot, I would like to tranfer all video files existing in that pi directory to /ftp://fritz.box/USBStickStorage/videofiles (fritz.box is my home router where an usb stick is attached) and delete them from the pi as soon the tranfer is successfully done. Has somebody any suggestion how to do it?
Attention: at boot, it takes approx 2 minutes before the raspberry pi is connecting to the home network via wifi; so, the copy/delete mechanism should not act immediatly at boot but wait till the raspberry is connected to the home network.
The next step could be: any new video should be copied to the home network then deleted if the copy was successfull.

Hi, any particular reason you need to do this at bootup? Would a regular cron job make more sense? Sending and deleting files every 10 minutes or so?

Your script could check and ping your router and if it's available then do the actual FTP.

Have you written the script that does the transfer yet?

I take it Fritz doesn't provide SSH access? If it does, use rsync

Assuming it does not...

ncftpput is an ftp batch utility for sending batch files. When the result code indicates no error, you can delete the local file.

Another utility, weex, is doing something like sync-over-ftp. It is very configurable and can delete source files IIRC.

Furthermore, I agree with TenTenths. Just build a cron job which periodically syncs the files. Then you can skip the complete copy-at-boot problem. The cron job just copies when it can.

jlinkels

I'd assume that any normal boot time script setting would transfer the files.

Sometimes you have to cheat ftp since it doesn't like scripts. Use expect or autoexpect to create the transfer script.

Why would you prefer ftp+expect over ncftpput? The latter was designed for batch operation.

jlinkels

rsync is your friend. Efficient, fast, easy.

Originally Posted by theNbomr rsync is your friend. Efficient, fast, easy.

As mentioned by the OP, his target device is a USB device attached to his router. A quick look at the documentation for a fritz.box would indicate that access to the storage is by FTP or "Media Server uPnP" only.

After having a look at each proposal (thanks!), I tried successfull following command few minutes ago

ncftpput -DD -d /home/pi/motion/ncftp.log fritz.box /SanDisk-Cruzer-01/video/ /home/pi/motion/video/*

All file were transfered from my raspberry pi to the usb storage which is on my fritz.box router; alle files on the raspberry pi are deleted for more space.
Now, I will put that command in a cron job doing it every 2minutes; I will have a look for advice in the internet how to do it (I never used cron).

this is what i do for my xbmc machine:

schneidz@xbmc:~$ tail .profile 
    fi
fi

# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then
    PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
fi

#/home/schneidz/bin/masq.ksh &
(sleep 45 && /usr/bin/sshfs schneidz@mom:media/stuff hyper) &> /dev/null &

you can probably put the same in /etc/rc.local or add an @reboot entry in the users crontab.

So, I made

crontab -e

and include the line

*/2 * * * * /usr/bin/ncftpput -DD -u pi -p mypasswordinraspberry fritz.box /SanDisk-Cruzer-01/video/ /home/pi/motion/video/*

now it runs!
see http://superuser.com/questions/10741...s-with-crontab