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

[Michael Hafen]

It's possible in linux to connect to a windows share.  A command like
the following would do the trick.

mount -t smbfs //your_server.full.path/share /mnt/point -o
workgroup=your_workgroup,username=a_username,password=read_only_password

Then you can load the images from /mnt/point.

On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 07:53 -0800, David Schuster 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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Michael Hafen
Systems Analyst and Programmer
Washington County School District
Utah, USA

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