Hey guys,

i have a script to update an external harddrive with my media to give to my friends. I always thought it worked fine but i did a big update on friday night and i noticed it ignored one of the films added the day before that and there are some folders that are empty. (seems like the couchpotato ones that only have the extra files for xbmc etc but not the .mkv)

Here is my script if anyone wants to look at it.

thanks alot

#/bin/bash
echo "Update toshiba for the last how many days?"
read days

echo "Update Movies? [y/n]"
read ans
echo "Update TV? [y/n]"
read ansTwo
echo "Update Music? [y/n]"
read ansThree

if [ $ans = y -o $ans = Y -o $ans = yes -o $ans = Yes -o $ans = YES ]
then
echo "Starting Movies..."
cd /mnt/user/Movies/
rsync -av --files-from=<(find -type f -mtime -$days) /mnt/user/Movies/ /mnt/disk/Toshiba/Movies/
fi

if [ $ansTwo = y -o $ansTwo = Y -o $ansTwo = yes -o $ansTwo = Yes -o $ansTwo = YES ]
then
echo "Starting TV..."
cd /mnt/user/TV/
rsync -av --files-from=<(find -type f -mtime -$days) /mnt/user/TV/ /mnt/disk/Toshiba/TV/
fi

if [ $ansThree = y -o $ansThree = Y -o $ansThree = yes -o $ansThree = Yes -o $ansThree = YES ]
then
echo "Starting Music..."
cd /mnt/user/Music/
rsync -av --files-from=<(find -type f -mtime -$days) /mnt/user/Music/ /mnt/disk/Toshiba/Music/
fi

echo " ______________________"
echo "|                      |"
echo "|      COMPLETE        |"
echo "|______________________|"

the files you downloaded often have a mtime, that's very old. it's the timestamp of when the file was created and zipped for distribution.

so if you download an old release (i.e. 400 days old) and start your script to copy the last 60 days, this file will not be copied.

 

mtime only changes, when the file content changes. it's not the day of your download.

it would be better to check for ctime (the time, the file was changed (any change counts, owner, permissions, etc). but i don't know, if rsync supports ctime.

oh thanks alot benni-chan. I had a feeling it was something like that. I will change it to the date modified as every file gets renamed. thanks alot :]