Purpose of project

Send ftp files and to a remote ftp server and resend them in case of connection faillure .

Design Architecture

Note

ftp.sh is only sending the files modified in less than one hour .

Manual Usage

• Install FTP server on the Raspberry pi by running the command $ sudo apt-get update then $ sudo apt-get install ftp

• Move the ftp.sh file to /home/pi/Desktop/vAlert/bin

• Move the ResendFtpFiles.sh to the same folder as above

• Navigate to /home/pi/Desktop/vAlert/log

• Create a new file named /TobeUploadedList.txt

• Make sure that TobeUploadedList.txt is writable by running $ chmod 777 TobeUploadedList.txt

• Open a terminal (Mac Terminal , putty, Git Bash)

• Type $ ssh pi@<pi_ip_address>

• Login and Navigate to /home/pi/Desktop/vAlert/rec

• Edit a ramdom file

• Navigate to /home/pi/Desktop/vAlert/bin

• Run chmod +x ftp.sh

• Run $ ./ftp.sh

• Check that /home/pi/Desktop/vAlert/log/TobeUploadedList.txt has be written

• If /home/pi/Desktop/vAlert/log/TobeUploadedList.txt has been written Run $ chmod +x ResendFtpFiles.sh then$ ./ResendFtpFiles.sh

Crontab schedule Usage

• After Testing function with steps above you can schedule the scripts with Crontab to run periodically or at some specific hour of the day

-First you should createa file undert/etc name myftpLog.log by just running $ touch /etc/mydtpLog.log

• Then run $ echo "10 12 * * * /home/pi/Desktop/vAlert/bin/./ftp.sh >> /etc/myftpLog.log 2>&1" >> /etc/crontab