I need to find a solution at work to backup specific folders daily, hopefully to a RAR or ZIP file.
If it was on PC, I would have done it already. But I don't have any idea to how to approach it on a Mac.
What I basically want to achieve is an automated task, that can be run with an executable, that does:
compress a specific directory (/Volumes/Audio/Shoko) to a rar or zip file.
(in the zip file exclude all *.wav files in all sub Directories and a directory names "Videos").
move It to a network share (/Volumes/Post Shared/Backup From Sound).
(or compress directly to this folder).
automate the file name of the Zip file with dynamic date and time (so no duplicate file names).
Shutdown Mac when finished.
I want to say again, I don't usually use Mac, so things like what kind of file to open for the script, and stuff like that is not trivial for me, yet.
I have tried to put Mark's bash lines (from the first answer, below) in a txt file and executed it, but it had errors and didn't work.
I also tried to use Automator, but it's too plain, no advanced options.
How can I accomplish this?
I would love a working example :)
Thank You,
Dave
You can just make a bash script that does the backup and then you can either double-click it or run it on a schedule. I don't know your paths and/or tools of choice, but some thing along these lines:
#!/bin/bash
FILENAME=`date +"/Volumes/path/to/network/share/Backup/%Y-%m-%d.tgz"`
cd /directory/to/backup || exit 1
tar -cvz "$FILENAME" .
You can save that on your Desktop as backup and then go in Terminal and type:
chmod +x ~/Desktop/backup
to make it executable. Then you can just double click on it - obviously after changing the paths to reflect what you want to backup and where to.
Also, you may prefer to use some other tools - such as rsync but the method is the same.
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I'm trying to follow a walkthrough and this is one of the steps, "go to that same folder in Terminal (if you can't do that you should probably quit now)" I'm not very familiar with Mac's Terminal, but don't feel like quitting. If it helps, I need to run a grep -r "what I'm looking for" command on the file. I really have no idea what I need to do to run that command, but the rest of the walkthrough is pretty thorough, so I know I can follow the next few steps.
You need to move to the directory where that file is stored, for this the command is cd. For example lets say the file is located in a directory names MyDir in the Desktop, the command will be
cd /Users/{YOUR_USERNAME_HERE}/Desktop/MyDir
You can run ls command here to check if the file is actually present in this directory or not
do you know some kind of software, or way to script automatic dearchivation on Windows?
Ideally this thing should work like this:
Open file with this script/software
It will search files inside by mask (doc, pdf, jpg...) and if there is <2 of that files - script will open them, if > - unpack to C:/Temp or whatever
If there is archives inside - go to 1 and perform same thing to them
Any help would be appreciated:)
You should use the jolly character("*").
Try telling the script to open a file called *.doc, *pdf or *.jpg.
I have a folder where some xml files keep updated, I want those files copied to another folder. From which a software collects the xml. I want to watch the folder and copy only new files as it comes to another folder automatically.
Is there any ready made solution or can it be done using Autoit, shell script or vb.net(last choice).
Main concerns:
Know when a file is added.
Copy them to the folder.
Make sure its notcopied second time.
If I schedule this code, it might also work
cd /home/webapps/project1/folder1 for f in *.csv do cp -v $f
/home/webapps/project1/folder2/${f%.csv}$(date +%m%d%y).csv done
But it again don't have a way to not copy those which are already copied.
rsync. Put it into cron to run every few minutes.
I've finished a little useful script written in Bash, hosted on github. It's tested and documented. Now, I struggle with how to make it installable, i.e. where should I put it and how.
It seems other such projects use make and configure but I couldn't really find any information on how to do this for bash scripts.
Also I'm unsure into which directory to put my script.
I know how to make it usable by myself but if a user downloads it, I want to provide the means for him to install it easily.
There is no standard for this because most of the time, a project isn't a single script file. Also single file scripts don't need a build step (the script is already in an executable form) and configuration usually comes from an external config file (so no need for a configure script, either).
But I suggest to add a comment near the top of the file which explains what it does and how to install it (i.e. chmod +x + copy to folder).
Alternatively, you could create an installer script which contains your original script plus a header which asks the user where she wants to install the real script and which does everything (mkdir, set permissions with sudo, etc) but it really feels like overkill in your case.
If you want to make it installable so the package manager can easily install and remove (!) it, you need to look at the documentation for rpm or Debian packaging. These are the two most used package managers but they can't install a script per-user (so it would probably end up in /usr/bin)
instruct them to create a file named after the script in their home directory, chmod ug+x the file so it has executable permissions than put the script inside the file, don't forget the #!/bin/bash up top of the vim. This example is a script to copy a file, archive the copied file than remove the copied file leaving only the original file and the archived file.
#!/bin/bash
#### The following will copy the desired file
cp -r /home/wes/Documents/Hum430 /home/wes/docs
#### Next archives the copied file
tar -zcvf Hum430.tar.gz /home/wes/docs
#### and lastly removes the un-archived copy leaving only the original and the archived file.
rm -r /home/wes/docs
### run the file with ./filename (whatever the file is named)
Should be an easy question for the gurus here, though it's hard to explain it in text so hopefully this is clear. I've got two directories on a box with some flavor of unix on it. I've got a script that I want to use to move all the files and directories from one location to another.
First, an example of how the directories look:
Directory A: final/results/2012/2012-02/2012-02-25/name/files
Directory B: test/results/2012/2012-02/2012-02-24/name/files
So you see they're very similar. What I want to do is move everything from the Directory B 2012 directory, recursively, to the same level of Directory A. So you'd end up with:
someproject/results/2012/2012-02/2012-02-25/name/files
someproject/results/2012/2012-02/2012-02-24/name/files
etc.
I want this script to be future proof though, meaning I don't want the 2012 hardcoded. Also, towards the end of a month you will potentially have data from two different months and both need to be copied into the 2012 directory. So here is the command I used in the shell script file:
CONS="/someproject";
ROOT="/test";
/bin/cp -r ${ROOT}/results/* ${CONS}/results/*
but this resulted in:
/final/results/2012/2012-02/2012-02-25/name/files
and
/final/results/2012/2012/2012-02/2012-02-24/name/files
So as I hope is clear, it started a level below where I wanted it too. Can anyone fill me in on what I'm doing wrong, if they can understand what I'm even trying to explain. My apologies if it's not clear. I'm sure this is a fairly simple fix but I'm not sure what to do. Shell scripting is not a strong point of mine.
One poster suggests rsync, which is overkill.
cp -rp will work fine. if you want to move the files, just mv the directory -- it and everything under it will move too.
The only real problem here is the use of terminating *'s in the command line in the original script. You don't need the *, you're just trying to pass directories to the cp command, you aren't trying to pass it the names of all the files already in the source (and more importantly, the destination).
You could also use a tool like rsync to make sure your source and target are synchronized.
rsync -av ${ROOT}/results/ ${CONS}/results/
You specified that you want to "move" the files, though. Which means deleting the originals after they're copied:
rsync -av --remove-source-files ${ROOT}/results/ ${CONS}/results/
If you start playing around with rsync, be sure to read the man page about how it treats trailing slashes.