[Koha-devel] cron job for loading pictures or better option

[Chris Nighswonger]

Hi David,

I think Rsync is your answer. You can use it on both boxes. It will keep the
directories in sync without moving all 53K files each time.

Win32: http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DeltaCopy.jsp

*nix: http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/

Kind Regards,
Chris

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:53 AM, David Schuster <dschust1 at tx.rr.com> wrote:

>
> I also see this line in the .pl file
>
> ##example -- >   perl loadimages.pl -i IDLINK.txt -l image.log -d
> "/home/pisd/dataload/pics/"
>
> so if there was a way to link the the sharefile and not actually scp the
> files over that would be way cool.
>
>
> David Schuster wrote:
> >
> > I have 53,000 students and a windows server in another building that I
> > have a fileshare to.  What would be the recommended way to copy those
> > files over and load them into Koha?
> >
> > I have tried scp * but the problem is that it only copies what 2000 at a
> > time and then dies.
> >
> > I'm a librarian looking for an easy solution without lots of programming.
> >
> > So here was my thought:
> >
> > build a cron
> > first make the fileshare connection
> > then issue several scp statements to copy the files over to the local
> > server
> > then issue the command to batch load them
> >
> > I have a command line utility that someone gave me to batch load
> pictures.
> > I'll find someone to send it to for testing with 3.2.  Next task...
> >
> > Thoughts?  Comments - is there an easier way?
> >
> > manually I have copied the files over and run this command to load them I
> > believe the utility is assuming the files are in the same directory:
> >
> > ./loadimages.sh  - which issues perl loadimages.pl -i IDLINK.txt -l
> > image.log
> >
> > from the loadimages.pl file -
> >
> > my(%count,$input_file,$error_file,$log_file,$sepchar,$imagedirectory);
> > $imagedirectory = "";
> >
> >
>
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