Hi,
I have a problem that I think rsync might be able to help solve:
On a windows NT machine a process P1 is running which is
creating files in a folder E:\output
The files are typically fairly small, e.g. approximately
50 KB and process P1 may create in the order of 10,000 files
a day. The files are created at a fairly constant rate throughout
the day
On a unix server another process P2 is running, monitoring
a folder /import/input for files. When a file turns up
in /import/input process P2 waits until the file is
"stable" (e.g. checks the file size hasn't changed in the last 10
seconds). When process P2 thinks the file is stable it processes the file
and then deletes the file from /import/input.
I need a way of picking up "stable" files from E:\output on the PC
and transferring them to /import/input on the unix server.
After a successfull file transfer I'd want to delete the original
file from E:\output. This all needs to happen in real time.
I.e. I can't just wait till midnight and transfer all 10,000 files
in one go. E.g. if a file turns up in E:\output on the PC at 4pm
I need the file transferred over to the unix server as soon as possible.
Do you think rsync could help provide a solution to this problem?
If so what benefits would it give me over plain old rcp?
Would I have to write a wrapper script to call rsync e.g. once every
minute of the day. Looking through the docs it doesn't seem possible
to get rsync to run constantly and monitor a folder for changes?
Also had a quick look at Unison (http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison)
but this also seems to be designed to be run once to synchronize two systems.
I suppose I could write a wrapper script to e.g. run unison every minute?
Thanks in advance for any advice you can offer,
Nick
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