[office politics]

i created a shell script to run multiple rsync commands. I'd like to see the output of these commands in real time....so i know which command it is on.

Is there a way to do this?

[kmote]

Do you mean tee?

[Jayce]

I'm not sure if this helps, but I have a bash script with several rsync commands. In my rsync command on each line I tagged in the --progress switch, therefore when I run "backup" from terminal, I can see what the computer is working on.

I rsync to 3 drives. I can't tell which drive is which at the time cause it's going so darn fast, but at least I can get an idea of what the computer is working on at the time.

[office politics]

after adding the verbose switch (-v) it started to show relative folder paths.

I'll try adding the progress switch. thanks in advance for the tip Jayce.

now i've created a shell script that you might be able to help with.

it's meant to mount windows shares then use rsync to sync files of particular directories.

it mounts the file share, but exits immediately after...which is when it comes to the for loop.

here's the code....it runs on knoppix

mkdir /mnt/srv3
mount -t smbfs -o username=office //srv3/cds /mnt/srv3
mkdir /mnt/srv
mount -t smbfs -o username=office //srv/nl /mnt/srv

for (( cd = 1 ; cd > 627 ; cd++ ))
do

echo "Trying cd $cd"

if [$cd < 10]
then

echo "Trying cd $cd"
rsync -av /mnt/srv3/CD000$cd/ /mnt/srv/CD000$cd/

else
  if [$cd < 100]
  then

  echo "Trying cd $cd"  
  rsync -av /mnt/srv3/CD00$cd/ /mnt/srv/CD00$cd/
  
  else
    if [$cd < 1000]
    then
    
    if [$cd > 626]
    then
    
    echo "Trying cd $cd"
    rsync -av /mnt/srv3/CD0$cd/ /mnt/srv/cd0$cd/
    
    fi
    
    echo "Trying cd $cd"
    rsync -av /mnt/srv3/CD0$cd/ /mnt/srv/CD0$cd/
    
    fi
  fi
fi

done

[kmote]

OK then a few things, you can put your mkdir commands into one eg. mkdir /mnt/{srv,srv3}
you should use cifs insead of smbfs.
Your for loop won't start, maybe you meant this
for(cd = 1; cd < 627; cd++)

[office politics]

Originally Posted by kmote

OK then a few things, you can put your mkdir commands into one eg. mkdir /mnt/{srv,srv3}
you should use cifs insead of smbfs.

i'll give it a try. what is cifs?

Your for loop won't start, maybe you meant this
for(cd = 1; cd < 627; cd++)

rofl, oh man i love it!!!! thx kmote.

[kmote]

Originally Posted by office politics

i'll give it a try. what is cifs?

Honestly I don't really know. I was using smbfs and somewhere along the line I learned that cifs was supposed to be newer/better or something.

Another thing about the code is that

if [$cd < 1000]

will always be true and

if [$cd > 626]

will always be false

[office politics]

yea, i wrote this in a rush and didn't think hard about the math.


regarding cifs

smbmount(8): mount smbfs filesystem - Linux man page

WARNING: smbmount is deprecated and not maintained any longer. mount.cifs (mount -t cifs) should be used instead of smbmount.

i've read cifs is very simialr to server message block "SMB"

Server Message Block - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Download details: Common Internet File System (CIFS) File Access Protocol

[kmote]

Ah well there you go. I knew I wasn't just pulling that from thin air.

[office politics]

...the more you know