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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers anyone for cron? Post 302379690 by buzzby on Friday 11th of December 2009 01:16:56 PM
Old 12-11-2009
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Originally Posted by pludi
It'd probably be better to create just 1 script that downloads the data (take a look at wget or curl for that), and, afterwards if successful, uploads it to the other server (plain FTP or SCP are good for that). That way you only have to create 1 script, and can be sure that the second task (uploading) only runs if the first has been successful.

My suggestion on how to start this:
  1. Find out how to down- and upload the file(s) from the command line. No script, no automation, just get to know the commands
  2. Find out how to create a script that does that, as a first step of automation. Nothing fancy, just get to know the possible return codes in case something goes wrong (Hint: $? is very useful for that)
  3. Outline a program flow for a script that could handle most situations without outside help. That will be the start for your real script
  4. If you've got your script ready and tested, write the crontab entry
If you need help anywhere along the way, just come back and ask, we don't bite. And I don't think you'll have problems with either shell scripting or Perl, as PHP was "inspired" heavily by both.
ahhh....so u r saying that 1 script will download and upload? so a perl or shell script will handle the upload and download. a cronjob will initiate the perl script? there has to be sufficient time passed for the download to have happened. i was thinking 2 scripts and 2 cronjobs. hmmm...interesting for sure. it has to be automated tho right from the get go. thats y i thought cronjobs needed to be set for both. isnt that right?
 

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CURLOPT_RESUME_FROM_LARGE(3)				     curl_easy_setopt options				      CURLOPT_RESUME_FROM_LARGE(3)

NAME
CURLOPT_RESUME_FROM_LARGE - set a point to resume transfer from SYNOPSIS
#include <curl/curl.h> CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_RESUME_FROM_LARGE, curl_off_t from); DESCRIPTION
Pass a curl_off_t as parameter. It contains the offset in number of bytes that you want the transfer to start from. Set this option to 0 to make the transfer start from the beginning (effectively disabling resume). For FTP, set this option to -1 to make the transfer start from the end of the target file (useful to continue an interrupted upload). When doing uploads with FTP, the resume position is where in the local/source file libcurl should try to resume the upload from and it will then append the source file to the remote target file. DEFAULT
0, not used PROTOCOLS
HTTP, FTP, SFTP, FILE EXAMPLE
CURL *curl = curl_easy_init(); if(curl) { curl_off_t resume_position = GET_IT_SOMEHOW; curl_off_t file_size = GET_IT_SOMEHOW_AS_WELL; curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "ftp://example.com"); /* resuming upload at this position, possibly beyond 2GB */ curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_RESUME_FROM_LARGE, resume_position); /* ask for upload */ curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_UPLOAD, 1L); /* set total data amount to expect */ curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_INFILESIZE_LARGE, file_size); /* Perform the request */ curl_easy_perform(curl); } AVAILABILITY
Added in 7.11.0 RETURN VALUE
Returns CURLE_OK if the option is supported, and CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not. SEE ALSO
CURLOPT_RESUME_FROM(3), CURLOPT_RANGE(3), CURLOPT_INFILESIZE_LARGE(3), libcurl 7.54.0 February 03, 2016 CURLOPT_RESUME_FROM_LARGE(3)
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