dietpi-sync - run more often/continously? Topic is solved

[hoverdonkey]

yes I noticed the same. I will contact developer depending on my test this night

I just added an edit to previous post:

EDIT: to clarify - the sync will proceed on pressing Enter for all permutations of of Sync: Continue with sync (either <Ok> or <Cancel>) or Cancel : Abort sync, no changes will be made (either <Ok> or <Cancel>).

[Joulinar]

I know

[hoverdonkey]

Hi,

once you configured dietpi-sync, you could try to put the sync scipt into crontab and to have it executed every x minutes.

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/boot/dietpi/dietpi-sync 1

I still do not know if I have done this correctly so have not been able to check if this would work (i.e. to check it would bypass the blocking behaviour we just found).

Was I correct in creating a file with the single line /boot/dietpi/dietpi-sync 1 in it, in directory /etc/cron.minutely. Or was I supposed to do something with crontab -e (which I would have no idea what to do with!)?

I really appreciate your support and guidance so far, thank you.

[Joulinar]

Was I correct in creating a file with the single line /boot/dietpi/dietpi-sync 1 in it, in directory /etc/cron.minutely.

what is the name of the file you created?
And did you assigned execute permission?
As well did you activate cron.minutely by running dietpi-cron

[hoverdonkey]

Was I correct in creating a file with the single line /boot/dietpi/dietpi-sync 1 in it, in directory /etc/cron.minutely.

what is the name of the file you created?
And did you assigned execute permission?
As well did you activate cron.minutely by running dietpi-cron

I called the file qbitsync.
I hadn't assigned execute, but I have now.
Yes, I did activate that.

[hoverdonkey]

I've got it working! I copied the file /etc/cron.daily/dietpi into /etc/cron.minutely, renamed it (to avoid confusion) and made it executable. The minutely sync now works. Apologies if this is what you meant in your first post of the thread.

Only problem is that (only now do) I see that it doesn't quite do what I want! When I remove files from the destination folder (i.e. move them to where I want them) they reappear with the next sync, which is to be expected (ain't hindsight wonderful!) Now, if only I could tell it only to to sync stuff that is less than a minute old!

[hoverdonkey]

Just to report in that I'm getting closer to my goal.

I started looking at the Qbittorrent "Run external programme on completion" box as suggested in an early post. Putting cp -r "%F" "/mnt/NFS_path" in the box successfully copies the just completed files with their path to where i want them. However, the copied files have permissions that stop them being moved/deleted in my Windows File Explorer. Back in dietpi terminal, running the command chmod 777 -R "/mnt/NASSY_NFS_Video/aqBittorrentdone" fixes this. However, I do not know how to combine the two commands so they can both run automatically. I have read that a script is required but so far my attempts have failed. I'll keep grinding away...

[Joulinar]

what user/permissions the files have once moved by Qbittorrent external command?

[hoverdonkey]

what user/permissions the files have once moved by Qbittorrent external command?

Group: dietpi [1000]
Owner: qbittorrent [999]

The main folder is drwxrwxr-x
The files within are -rw-rw-r--

[Joulinar]

in meantime I got dietpi-sync running from qbit external command but it will end up same user permissions as they are download by qbit

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-rw-rw-r-- 1 qbittorrent dietpi

question is if write permission for other would be enough to be able to access files on the NAS. Means to use 666 instead of 777

There is an old request on qbit github to add a feature to be able to change permission
https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/8016