On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 09:43, Rich Ransom wrote:
> Is there a way to capture events like updating files or writing files
> to a directory so a script could be run. For example every time I
> modify or add a file having a script automatically run that will copy
> it to multiple directories?
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> Rich Ransom
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If you can live with near real time backup, you could use a simple
script to see if anything in the directory has changed in the past X
minutes. Then run that script via cron every X minutes.
On the chance this will meet your needs, below is a sample script to get
you started.
- Paul
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#!/bin/sh
DIRTOBAK="/data/special" # Directory to backup
SCANPERIOD=5 # Scan DIRTOBAK every SCANPERIOD minutes
DEST1="/backup1" # 1st Destination to backup files to
DEST2="/backup2" # 2nd " "
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin
FILESTOBAK=`find $DIRTOBAK -type f -mmin -$SCANPERIOD`
if [ -n "${FILESTOBAK}" ]; then #Do not try to copy an empty list
cp $FILESTOBAK $DEST1
cp $FILESTOBAK $DEST2
fi
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