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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Script Pause Until Rsync Is Done Transferring Post 302320667 by droppedonjapan on Thursday 28th of May 2009 02:17:15 PM
Old 05-28-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by in2nix4life
If this is a Bash shell script you could try the 'wait' command.
For some reason the wait command doesn't work according to the documentation that you gave me. I've tried just doing this...

Code:
rsync -urza -e "ssh -i rsync-key -l username -p xxxx" /filepath/filename.zip webserv:/filepath/

wait

And it doesn't wait at all.

As for the lockfile, I'm not sure what that script does, exactly.

Code:
lockDir="/root/lock_files"
lockFilePath="$lockDir/file.lock"

while [ -e "$lockFilePath" ]
do

   exit
done

touch $lockFilePath

/usr/bin/rsync  --stats -e ssh -rlvtgoDz --delete  /dir/dir/dir/ root@server:/dir/dir/dir/ &

rm -f $lockFilePath

As far as I can tell, it starts out telling where the lock directory and file is. Then you say if the locked file exists, then if it does, then exit the script. Then if it isn't there, then you touch the file (thereby creating a blank file, if my "touch" knowledge is correct), and then starts the rsync in a background process. After it starts making the rsync, it then removes the lock file.

I could see this somewhat working if you made the script call itself before the while statement, but I don't know how this would improve my situation. Normally my script then removes the files that are being rsync'ed, so even if I called this script externally, the rm command would go through just as soon as this script finished, a la just as the rsync starts. And I really don't need to rsync multiple files, just one.

Any other ideas / suggestions?

(Thanks for what I have so far, by the way. Smilie)

EDIT: Also, I'm running all this on a Red Hat system. Forgot to include that earlier.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

parallel-rsync

PARALLEL-RSYNC(1)														 PARALLEL-RSYNC(1)

NAME

       parallel-rsync - deploy files to listed hosts

SYNOPSIS

       parallel-rsync [OPTIONS] -h hosts.txt local remote

DESCRIPTION

       pssh provides a number of commands for executing against a group of computers, using SSH. It's most useful for operating on clusters of
       homogenously-configured hosts.

       parallel-rsync deploy files files to all hosts you listed.

OPTIONS

       -r --recursive
	   recusively copy directories (OPTIONAL)

       -a ----archive
	   use rsync -a (archive mode) (OPTIONAL)

       -z --compress
	   use rsync compression (OPTIONAL)

       -h --hosts
	   hosts file (each line "host[:port] [user]")

       -l --user
	   username (OPTIONAL)

       -p --par
	   max number of parallel threads (OPTIONAL)

       -o --outdir
	   output directory for stdout files (OPTIONAL)

       -e --errdir
	   output directory for stderr files (OPTIONAL)

       -t --timeout
	   timeout (secs) (-1 = no timeout) per host (OPTIONAL)

       -O --options
	   SSH options (OPTIONAL)

       -v --verbose
	   turn on warning and diagnostic messages (OPTIONAL)

EXAMPLE

	   # parallel-rsync -r -h hosts.txt -l irb2 foo /home/irb2/foo

ENVIRONMENT

       All four programs take similar sets of options. All of these options can be set using the following environment variables:

       o   PSSH_HOSTS
       o   PSSH_USER
       o   PSSH_PAR
       o   PSSH_OUTDIR
       o   PSSH_VERBOSE
       o   PSSH_OPTIONS

SEE ALSO

       parallel-ssh(1), parallel-scp(1), parallel-slurp(1), parallel-nuke(1), ssh(1), rsync(1)

AUTHOR

       Brent N. Chun <bnc@theether.org>

COPYING

       Copyright: 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Brent N. Chun

NOTES

	1. bnc@theether.org
	   mailto:bnc@theether.org

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