scheduled downloads [solved]

[solarian]

Hey!

 

I have a remote server and it on request generates a gzip backup file to download.

I can download it using

wget --http-user=USER --http-passwd=PASS http://URL/sql.gz

I don't have any problems there, but I want to make the process more automated.

I need:

1. Make the download scheduled (say, each day at 12:00am)

2. Upon downloading the filename is changed, the current date is added (sql-DATE.gz)

3. The downloading is done to a particular directory on my hdd (obvious)

 

p.s. I have no knowledge in programming, so don't advice me to write my own program to do this.

Maybe there is a ready code to do this?

 

p.s. I know that there is the d4x program, but it has no options for the renaiming of files (not that I know of anyways).

I need that renaiming, so that if the latest download is broken, it doesn't damage my already downloaded backup file.

However the program has a line "execute command", maybe you can tell me what would be a syntax for filename.gz -> filename-DATE.gz

 

p.p.s. using d4x is not really what I'd prefer. It's an X program and it uses valuable resources, besides I wouldn't like my backups to be dependant on an X program, a simple few line script would be much nicer, the problem is that I don't know how to make it.

 

thanx in advance if someone helps!!

 

 

edit: I found out the filename change! :)

mv filename.gz filename-`date +%m%d%y_%H%M`.gz

now.. how to make it scheduled..

Edited March 24, 2005 by solarian

[Guest anon]

Or, if you just want two copies (current and previous ) you could run something like:

rsync -ab --suffix=.bak /remote_url/file_name  /destination/file_name

Use cron to schedule it, or use the scheduled jobs module in Webmin.

[solarian]

thanx for the advice!

[Hirogen2]

1. Make the download scheduled (say, each day at 12:00am)

2. Upon downloading the filename is changed, the current date is added (sql-DATE.gz)

3. The downloading is done to a particular directory on my hdd (obvious)

now.. how to make it scheduled..

Make your own cron script.

 

/home/user/download_and_process:

#!/bin/bash -e

wget http://blah/sql.tgz;
mv sql.tgz sql-`date "+%Y-%m-%d_%H%M"`.tgz;

 

And add this to your crontab (`crontab -e`):

0 12 * * * /home/user/download_and_process

Finished.