Bash script for synchronizing data from a directory to a WDTV or other external drive. -- NOTE: This script is asynchronous unlike the imgur drop script.

wdtvsync.sh

#!/bin/bash

NET_DIR="//stevestv.local/portable"
TARGET_DIR="/media/wdtv"
SOURCE_DIR="/srv/wdtv/" #Include the trailing slash

# Exit upon errors
set -e

# Check if directory exists
if [ ! -d "$TARGET_DIR" ]; then
    mkdir -p "$TARGET_DIR"
fi

# Check if mountpoint exists there
if ! mountpoint -q "$TARGET_DIR" ; then
    echo "Mounting WDTV ... "
    sudo mount -t cifs "$NET_DIR" "$TARGET_DIR" -o guest,rw,uid=1000,gid=1000,nounix,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777
fi

# Perform the syncronization
# Recursive, verbose, compress, preserve permissions, times, groups, etc
echo "Syncing Data ..."

rsync -rvzptgoD --copy-links --copy-dirlinks "$SOURCE_DIR" "$TARGET_DIR"

echo "Syncronization Finished."