aorg-sync.sh synchronizes a remote archive.org item folder with the local directory.

It tries to minimize network traffic by checking file sizes, last modified times and md5 hashes against item metadata exposed by archive.org.

Usage

You can run this on the Mister or on another Linux host.

cp aorg-sync.sh /media/fat/Scripts
mkdir -p /media/fat/games/AO486/0mhz && cd /media/fat/games/AO486/0mhz
/media/fat/Scripts/aorg-sync.sh # Will sync into /media/fat/games/AO486/0mhz

All user-configuration options can be overridden through the environment:

REMOTE=foo ./aorg-sync.sh # Will sync https://archive.org/download/foo

If you’re executing this script on macOS or another BSD, you’ll need GNU coreutils installed (e.g. from macports or homebrew) as the BSD versions of touch and stat do not support the same features.

If the script is reporting a self signed certificate in certificate chain error, follow the directions shown here to install missing certificates, or run the script with --no-check-cert.

License

This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.

Author

xristos (AT) sdf (DOT) org