Any ideas on how to automate....

[Philippine Mango]

I'm planning on building a file server out of a Pentium Pro system (200MHZ 256KB cache) with fairly large drives and wanted to know of a way to automate my recordings on my "tivo" like machine to be moved to the file server.

 

[minendo]

rsync coupled with a batch file and automatic scheduler

 

[n0cmonkey]

ftp.

 

[Philippine Mango]

how do you get FTP to automate file transfers? remember this isn't really a tivo but a "tivo". I have a computer doing the tivo functions for me so...

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Philippine Mango
how do you get FTP to automate file transfers? remember this isn't really a tivo but a "tivo". I have a computer doing the tivo functions for me so...

.ftprc, IIRC.

 

[Philippine Mango]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: Philippine Mango
how do you get FTP to automate file transfers? remember this isn't really a tivo but a "tivo". I have a computer doing the tivo functions for me so...

.ftprc, IIRC.

but would it be like a script?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Philippine Mango

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: Philippine Mango
how do you get FTP to automate file transfers? remember this isn't really a tivo but a "tivo". I have a computer doing the tivo functions for me so...

.ftprc, IIRC.

but would it be like a script?

Yeah. The .ftprc file is filled with config information (username, password, hostname, etc). You write a quick script to upload whatever files to that hostname, and everything else takes care of itself. :beer:

 

[Philippine Mango]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: Philippine Mango

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: Philippine Mango
how do you get FTP to automate file transfers? remember this isn't really a tivo but a "tivo". I have a computer doing the tivo functions for me so...

.ftprc, IIRC.

but would it be like a script?

Yeah. The .ftprc file is filled with config information (username, password, hostname, etc). You write a quick script to upload whatever files to that hostname, and everything else takes care of itself. :beer:

:beer:
Thanks! I'll try that out/look up for more info on that...

 

[BlueWeasel]

I really like using Robocopy to automate backups to my external USB drive. I use it to mirror various directories to the external drive and have created batch files to automate the process.