Copy a folder from NAS to other HDD every day

miros84 · 12-24-2012, 04:04 AM

Hello,

I use Debian Squeezy.
I need to copy a folder from NAS to other HDD every Monday and Fryday.
is thre some program that I can use for that?

memilanuk · 12-24-2012, 11:45 AM

Work out a script that does what you want, and then run it via cron at the appointed times?

teckk · 12-24-2012, 08:09 PM

An example mounting the NAS with samba, passwordless sudo. Use NFS, FTP, SCP, whatever you want. Use cifs instead of smbfs if you want. If the NAS is already mounted then skip that part. Save the script as something.sh. Then make something.sh executable.

Code:

#!/bin/bash

sudo mount -t smbfs //NAS/share /path/to/HDD/share &&
sleep 5 &&
cp -nR "/path/to/HDD/share" "/path/to/where/you/want/it/" &&
sleep 5 &&
sudo umount /path/to/HDD/share

Use crontab to launch the script when you want.
Here is how crontab works.
http://www.adminschoice.com/crontab-quick-reference
http://crontab.org/
http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/06/...ntab-examples/

There are also frontends for crontab like gnome-schedule

miros84 · 12-25-2012, 02:11 AM

Thank you for the examples. My NAS has password. SO I need to add the password, right?
What about sleep 5? What that does?

teckk · 12-25-2012, 08:38 AM

Quote:

My NAS has password. SO I need to add the password, right?

Add a way to enter password. This was a simple script example, you could make it more elegant. Xterm will launch and wait for a password.

Code:

#!/bin/bash

xterm -e sudo mount -t smbfs //NAS/share /path/to/HDD/share &&
sleep 5 &&
cp -nR "/path/to/HDD/share" "/path/to/where/you/want/it/" &&
sleep 5 &&
xterm -e sudo umount /path/to/HDD/share

Quote:

What about sleep 5?

Sleep for 5 seconds, give mount and cp time to finish.

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