[TriLUG] Some script help

[William Sutton via TriLUG]

in that case... I'd rely on a cron'd script, a staging directory, and 
rsync.

William Sutton

On Fri, 8 May 2015, Brian Blater via TriLUG wrote:

> Thank you for the suggestions so far. I can always count on this group for
> all kinds of suggestions.
>
> So, one thing to note is that for testing I was just doing the copy on a
> local machine in different directories. How does this change things if the
> actual files are on a remote server only available via SSH? I was thinking
> once I got the local stuff working I would just use SCP for the remote
> directory.
>
> Again, I'm not partial to regex to "skin this cat", but simple is always
> better. So, what would you use for this "script" knowing that the source
> files are on a remote server accessible via ssh/scp, both boxes are linux
> boxes, I need to copy the latest file from source machine to the
> destination machine that is running the script and I need to leave 7 days
> worth of files on source, with any older ones being deleted?
>
> Brian
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