I have a remote system, over which I don't have any control, uploading a lot of files over rsync/ssh from time to time. After that I need to process the files. But I can't touch incomplete copy. How do I detect if there's an rsync session ongoing and bail out?
2 Answers
You can check with lsof before copying the file to see if some program has it open, example:
[root@pr467958 ~]# lsof /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME mysqld 23262 mysql 12u unix 0xffff880fd8573600 0t0 15647622 /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock mysqld 23262 mysql 13u unix 0xffff8800260bc900 0t0 18648027 /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
The output of lsof will be blank if no program has the file open so the problem is a quite simple scripting matter: if the output is blank copy the file if not leave it by now
lsofoutput=`lsof /home/myfile`
if [ ! $lsofoutput ]
then
cp /home/myfile /somewhere/else
fi
Just one last thing. If you don't have control over that system but you have a ssh user/password then you do have control, just issue the above commands over ssh like this:
ssh root@8.8.8.8 exec "/root/scripts/the-above-script.sh"
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I have tens of thousands files. Do you mean that I need to check every other file?– sanmaiSep 3, 2013 at 13:09
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Of course that has to be done automatically. - You get the list of files by using ls or find and put it inside an array. - Loop the array and for every file location run the above code inside the loop. - If the output of lsof is null then you can copy the file, if not you leave it and continue with the next file. Sep 3, 2013 at 14:55
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For the amount of files I have this approach will take more time than the actual sync.– sanmaiSep 10, 2013 at 8:11
If you have ssh access to that machine you should try
ps auxc | grep rsync
It'll show you running rsync processes.
