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

[David Schuster]

Mike you are the man!  I have figured out the correct perl command to load
them from the remote server without transfering the files to my server... 
OH THIS IS GREAT!

I'll see if it works with 3.2 and maybe we can get it included for the rest
of the world that has thousands of pictures to load!

I'm going to set this up as a cron job to load once a week...  Way cool. 
Now if I could just get the cron job setup to load borrowers daily from a
command line script... anyone anyone....???

David Schuster

Mike Hafen-2 wrote:
> 
> 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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