cpcam

A bash terminal utility (still early BETA) to auto-sync between injected cam cards (e.g. photo, film) and local backup structures.

Install instructions

All @diqidoq bash script utilities are build the same way: Create a ~/share and a ~/bin folder in you machines user account if it doesn't exist already (mkdir -p ~/<folder>) and git clone the repo into the ~/share folder. Then create a sym link from the main executable file commonly named like the repo in ~/share/<the-new-utility-git> to the ~/bin/<executable> folder and chmod a+x ~/bin/<executable>. Make sure your ~/bin folder is in the system path (export PATH=/home/yourusername/bin:PATH) to make the new utility terminal aware for commands.

mkdir -p ~/bin
mkdir -p ~/share
cd ~/share
git clone <this-git-repo> (link from above on the right <https>)
ln -s ~/share/<this-git-repo>/<this-utility-name> ~/bin/<this-utility-name>
chmod a+x ~/share/<this-git-repo>/<this-utility-name> ~/bin/<this-utility-name>
source ~/.bashrc

Requirements

• git (sudo apt-get install git)
• rsync (sudo apt-get install rsync)
• pv (sudo apt-get install pv)
• Bash (Born Again Shell support, should be provided by default in most X systems)
• X enviroment with Xterm like terminals, like default in Debian/Ubuntu derivates and Mac OSX systems.
• FFmpeg, mplayer or mediainfo installed for media info support
• USB ports for external cards and USB storage to import
• Some basic knowledge about terminal commands and terminal application handling.

What it does

• It checks if the in config-file provided source- and base target-devices and dirs exist and if source dir is not empty.
• Creates date and time stamp sub dir in target base dir to make a unique target dir available.
• It uses rsync to create a local copy of the file structure on target from source and compares afterwards with verbose output.
• It preserves permissions, owner, group, devices and file creation times
• Target dirs get time stamp and log files about time and media on import.
• Opens your file manager to show you source and target and prints some info about both to make sure the import was complete.
• Breaks up if one the 2 directories are suspicious in any way and warns you about it
• Finally asks you if you want the source to get cleaned

How it works

• Simply drag your cam card into the cardreader slot or card reader USB dongle and connect it to the system
• modify the ~/.cpcam.cfg file to enter/modify SOURCE and TARGET dir, if not already done after first cpcam run dialoque
• Now simply open terminal and type cpcam
• That's it. cpcam will sync both directories and will show you that import was successful.
• The idea is that it simplifies the frequently import on a shooting location without permanenty dealing with folders and dirs
• All import sessions are splittet into date-time stamped folders inside the TARGET dir and the script makes sure that the import is not interupted or corrupted like it can happen by manually importing can media files in the GUI.

License

Copyright (c) 2016 Digidog (aka. diqidoq) - Released under GPL v3

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.