Scheduled Download Script

[Ray_Barber]

Hi,
I use cron on my server to tar 3 files nightly that are placed in my backups directory.
I looking for a script to connect to the backup directory and download the 3 files to my mac desktop/backups folder each night. The remote files reside in a directory below my public_html so they can’t be reached via http. The script can be for fetch, terminal, or whatever. Any help would be appreciated.

ie.
mysite.com
– cgi-bin
– backups/files are in here
– public_html
– – index.html
– – etc…

Thank you.

[fundidor]

Try this:

(* 

You are going to need a valid ip to do this.


*)
		
		
		set MyDestinationFolder to "~/Desktop/"
		
		set OriginFolder to "222.333.111.222:/Users/UserName/folder/" -- the first set of numbers should be a valid ip
		
		
		tell application "Terminal"
			
			set MyComannd to do script with command "scp -r " & OriginFolder & space & MyDestinationFolder
			
		end tell
	

In my script you would have to type the pasword manually.

I hope someone more experienced would post how to do it without having to type the password

[Ray_Barber]

Yes, ideally the script would run at say 3am each morning. I doubt I’ll be up or in any condition to type responses into prompt boxes.

[johnfountain]

try this shell script

#!/bin/bash

remoteFiles="file1 file2 file3"

for theFile in $remoteFiles; do
	
	/usr/bin/curl -o /Users/userName/$theFile ftp://username:password@mysite.com/backups/$theFile

done

HTH -john

[Ray_Barber]

Try this:

(* 

You are going to need a valid ip to do this.


*)
		
		
		set MyDestinationFolder to "~/Desktop/"
		
		set OriginFolder to "222.333.111.222:/Users/UserName/folder/" -- the first set of numbers should be a valid ip
		
		
		tell application "Terminal"
			
			set MyComannd to do script with command "scp -r " & OriginFolder & space & MyDestinationFolder
			
		end tell
	

In my script you would have to type the pasword manually.

I hope someone more experienced would post how to do it without having to type the password

This works good, but I need two things:

1. This downloads the entire backup directory. I need to be able to specify certain files.

2. I need it to quit the Terminal app at the end. Right now it stays logged in.

Thanks alot.

[fundidor]

You stillhave to type the password for every file, But this should work, and quit the terminal at the end…

set MyDestinationFile to “~/Desktop/”

set OriginFile to " "

set MyFileList to alias “Macintosh HD:User:YourName:Desktop:List.txt” --In This file you list the files, must be clean text file.

(*

List.txt should look like this: ( list of valid ips and files)

111.222.333.444:/Users/etc…/file1.txt
111.222.333.444:/Users/etc…/file2.txt
111.222.333.444:/Users/etc…/file3.txt
111.222.333.444:/Users/etc…/file4.txt
111.222.333.444:/Users/etc…/file5.txt

No empty paragraphs!!

*)

open for access MyFileList
set fileText to read MyFileList
close access MyFileList

set CurrentCount to “1”

set MyCount to the count of paragraphs of fileText

repeat

if CurrentCount is greater than MyCount then
	
	tell application "Terminal" to quit
	exit repeat
	
else
	
	
	
	set OriginFile to paragraph CurrentCount of the fileText
	
	
	tell application "Terminal"
		
		--display dialog OriginFile giving up after 1
		
		set MyComannd to do script with command "scp " & OriginFile & space & MyDestinationFile
		
	end tell
	
	
	set CurrentCount to CurrentCount + 1
	
end if

end repeat

Hope I am helping you…