I have a remote folder that is updated regulary (about once a week)
I have access to this folder via konqueror and the fish protocol
I have a local folder synchronized with dropbox

Once every week i copy the contents of the remote folder to the local folder of dropbox.

Is there a way to do the last action automaticaly ?

lftp and cron?

per man page

DESCRIPTION
lftp is a file transfer program that allows sophisticated ftp, http and other connections to other hosts. If site is specified then lftp will connect to that site otherwise a connection has to be established with the open command.

lftp can handle several file access methods - ftp, ftps, http, https, hftp, fish........

I tried with mget but it does nt work

after i tried with mirror and it works with this command:

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lftp -e mirror fish://username@domain.org:2222/home/www/domain.org/path/to/remote/folder -u username,password

The only incovienant is that it gets all files. Any option that i add after the mirror commande is invalid! i get an error that is an invalid option
"lftp: invalid option -- 'n'"
I would like to add a wildcard to get only this type of files: backup*.gz but it does nt matter so much.


Another thing that happens is that when the command is terminated, in the terminal i am remaining in the remote folder. I putted the command in a script and i added a command 'exit' but after the script is launched i am always connected to the remote folder.

This is the output:

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[dglent@localhost ~]$ ./backup
cd ok, cwd=/home/www/domain.org/path/to/remote/folder
Total: 1 directory, 11 files, 0 symlinks
New: 2 files, 0 symlinks
Modified: 6 files, 0 symlinks
2252739 bytes transferred in 7 seconds (311.6K/s)
lftp username@domain.org:~/www/domain.org/path/to/remote/folder>

Is it a problem that it does nt close the connexion ?

And the script:

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#!/bin/bash
cd /home/dglent/Dropbox/backup/
lftp -e mirror fish://username@domain.org:2222/home/www/domain.org/path/to/remote/folder -u username,password
exit

google01103 wrote:lftp and cron?

After all, i intend to add this script to the ~.kde4/Autostart folder

why do you use FISH? why not scp or ssh?

doesn't the "close" command close the connection?

close [-a]

Close idle connections. By default only with the current server, use -a to close all idle
connections.

You have right, after searching for the "scp" command i finaly have a working script:

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#!/usr/bin/expect
 
set timeout 30
spawn /usr/bin/scp -P 2222 user@domain.org:/home/www/domain.org/path/to/folder/backup*.gz /home/dglent/Dropbox/path/to/backup/

expect {
        "Password:"
       {
          send "my_password\r"
          interact
       }
}

The problem now is that when i run the script in a terminal it works fine, but if i set this script in the autostart scripts from systemsettings the kde session does not work. After login, i cannot launch any application, i have the application icons rebonding and nothing happens. i have to logout with ctrl+alt+backspace, the kmenu does nt responding

2 thoughts

1) add a sleep command before the expect script so that the script doesn't run kde has fully started
2) use kalarm and "any time" option

after many tries, i made a new script bash which runs the script of the backup, in this way it is launched inside a terminal, so KDE accept it, and i add the >/dev/null 2>&1 in the command because i would nt like to see the terminal open on startup.
i think it is ok now



Thanks for the interesting, the patience and for the suggestions as i am not a developer, and i have just found out this functionality

you should look at using Kalarm for these kind of things

i ve never used kalarm, i tried it, but i did nt like the window with the notification, i want the task to be executed in the background, without any notification. After that i did nt understand why it does nt let me to edit the notification (it had the description --Read only--)

you need to use a "command alarm" and in the "command output" section
make sure discard is selected

note: there are 4 types of alarms: command, display, audio and email

you got a notification window because you were using a "display alarm"

ok i see better now, i should spending more time with kalarm, i ignored what it is able to do. We have tools in our system and sometimes we dont know what they can do