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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users UNIX - SCP File Transfer Post 302183223 by tderscheid on Tuesday 8th of April 2008 02:34:16 PM
Old 04-08-2008
what do you have so far?
Do you have anything so far other than that line?

You can test for scp's successful completion by looking to see if the exit status is 0 once it finishes. Here's an example:

Code:
#!/bin/bash
echo starting transfer
scp $sourcepath/* user@\$destserver:\$destpath >> /tmp/log.$$
OUT=$?
if [ $OUT = 0 ] ;then
echo transfer successful
else
echo oh no, ftp transfer failed somehow. check log file in tmp for details
fi

Are your scp transfers typically failing? How large are the files you are transferring?

You could also have the script check for files before it transfers, parse the log to see if it needs to retry, email the log files elsewhere, etc.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

pscp

pscp(1) 							 PuTTY tool suite							   pscp(1)

NAME

       pscp - command-line SCP (secure copy) / SFTP client

SYNOPSIS

       pscp [options] [user@]host:source target
       pscp [options] source [source...] [user@]host:target
       pscp [options] -ls [user@]host:filespec

DESCRIPTION

       pscp is a command-line client for the SSH-based SCP (secure copy) and SFTP (secure file transfer protocol) protocols.

OPTIONS

       The command-line options supported by pscp are:

       -V     Show version information and exit.

       -pgpfp Display the fingerprints of the PuTTY PGP Master Keys and exit, to aid in verifying new files released by the PuTTY team.

       -ls    Remote directory listing.

       -p     Preserve file attributes.

       -q     Quiet, don't show statistics.

       -r     Copy directories recursively.

       -unsafe
	      Allow server-side wildcards (DANGEROUS).

       -v     Show verbose messages.

       -load session
	      Load settings from saved session.

       -P port
	      Connect to port port.

       -l user
	      Set remote username to user.

       -batch Disable interactive prompts.

       -pw password
	      Set  remote  password to password. CAUTION: this will likely make the password visible to other users of the local machine (via com-
	      mands such as `w').

       -1     Force use of SSH protocol version 1.

       -2     Force use of SSH protocol version 2.

       -C     Enable SSH compression.

       -i path
	      Private key file for authentication.

       -scp   Force use of SCP protocol.

       -sftp  Force use of SFTP protocol.

MORE INFORMATION

       For more information on pscp it's probably best to go and look at the manual on the PuTTY web page:

       http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

BUGS

       This man page isn't terribly complete. See the above web link for better documentation.

PuTTY tool suite						    2004-03-24								   pscp(1)
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