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In other words, what are you really trying to accomplish with the copy?
A backup of all data on FTP (an incremental approach would be more efficient)?
Agree with timmeke here - running the script every minute wastes resources. If you want to backup your FTP data another option (if you have another machine available) is to do an rsync of your FTP data between the FTP server and "Backup" Server.
Close, but you'll want to add the "target" location to the cp commands.
Maybe you can try the commands manually first too (even with -v for verbose prints)?
Why would you need to run this copy-script as root user?
This can add serious risks to system security (e.g. the copied files may be left with root as owner).
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