Re: Transferring files between computers using php

Peter Ford wrote:

Here's overkill: use "fuse" to make two sshfs filesystems :) # Make some directories to mount the remote stuff onto mkdir -p mount_point_for_B mkdir -p mount_point_for_C # Use 'fuse' to make SSHFS mounts from the remotes to the new directories

sshfs B:/path_to_where_the_file_is    mount_point_for_B

sshfs C:/path_to_where_the_file_goes mount_point_for_C # Copy the file across: repeat this step every few seconds (cron job?) cp mount_point_for_B/the_file_to_copy mount_point_for_C # Unmount the SSHFS mounts when you're finished fusermount -u mount_point_for_B fusermount -u mount_point_for_C

That's overkill indeed and can make for some cool flaws on you filesystem too. When an unmount won't succeed the next execution via cron will fail since the mount point already exists etc. Every few seconds an update over to 2 systems is somehow weird. I think it is very intensive and like I said if somehow one part of the syncing 'hangs', it can fill memory or bandwidth very quickly. So, I can't still figure out what has to be done over to these computers every minute or whatever. The situation is not really clear to me. -- Aschwin Wesselius /'What you would like to be done to you, do that to the other....'/