Disable / enable aicloud sync-jobs from shell/ssh/telnet/script?

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Hello again,

I visited the subpage of aicloud on my N66U today, findind alot of interesting sync-jobs one could set up via the GUI for syncing via ftp, samba, dropbox etc, which is wonderfull indeed, exept for one thing:
I would like to shut down the sync-jobs on daytime, running them only in a window of maybe 4-5 hours in the middle of the night, thus I would need to shut it down /start it again via a looping/running script or a cronjob.

Does anyone have experience, knowledge with this, basically what the actual running processes are, and if its sufficient to just kill/stop/start them, or do they need commandline parameters / conf-files for each job etc like smbd, minidlna and transmission does? (I know scripting / cronjobs, know how to implement it structure-wise, I just dont know the commands/processes behind the syncing / aicloud services).

Any help is very much appreciated, and a million thanks in advance for anyone taking the time to read this.

 

[huotg01]

Hello again,

I visited the subpage of aicloud on my N66U today, findind alot of interesting sync-jobs one could set up via the GUI for syncing via ftp, samba, dropbox etc, which is wonderfull indeed, exept for one thing:
I would like to shut down the sync-jobs on daytime, running them only in a window of maybe 4-5 hours in the middle of the night, thus I would need to shut it down /start it again via a looping/running script or a cronjob.

Does anyone have experience, knowledge with this, basically what the actual running processes are, and if its sufficient to just kill/stop/start them, or do they need commandline parameters / conf-files for each job etc like smbd, minidlna and transmission does? (I know scripting / cronjobs, know how to implement it structure-wise, I just dont know the commands/processes behind the syncing / aicloud services).

Any help is very much appreciated, and a million thanks in advance for anyone taking the time to read this.

I would recommend to first see if the sync process, basically, works well with regards to your needs. I think that the code used for these features is "closed", therefore it is quite difficult to change the behavior.

In fact this is the main reason why I finally decided to build a more complex but more solid solution based on Rsync, and wrote a tutorial:
https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-me...c-through-a-SSH-tunnel-between-2-Asus-routers

Depending on your expertise, it could be difficult to implement, or easy if you are used to work with a ssh terminal emulator. When implemented, it works alone and inform daily the users of the results.

 

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Thank you for the information. I read your excellent tutorial on rsync two days ago. I think its not that I don't have the knowledge to set it up, but more a matter of - knowing myself - patience and time.

I will read the tutorial once more, this time more carefully, to decide if it's something I shoud embark on.

I will also try to look a bit at top/ps when enabling/disabling those services, and see where that brings me.

I was perhaps thinking of plain password-protected samba in a script i'll make if I can't figure out the ai-sync services on the recieving router, where I then "ping" two watch-folders every 5 minutes ("sync-now", and "sync-tonight" <- or something like that), so if i drop something in the "sync-now" folder in my router, it will immediatly be moved to that other recieving router, and if the files are in the "sync-tonight", well - i'll leave up to imagination what that last one does


PS: The link you posted to rsync-tutorial just leads to "GutHub create new page" on my end, so I went to your thread about it here: http://forums.smallnetbuilder.com/showthread.php?t=21677 but there too the tutorial-link leads to "create new page", If its not just on my end, I hope for your sake that you made a backup of that tutorial somewhere

Thank you again.

 

[huotg01]

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I will also try to look a bit at top/ps when enabling/disabling those services, and see where that brings me.

Tell us what you find.

PS: The link you posted to rsync-tutorial just leads to "GutHub create new page" on my end, so I went to your thread about it here: http://forums.smallnetbuilder.com/showthread.php?t=21677 but there too the tutorial-link leads to "create new page", If its not just on my end, I hope for your sake that you made a backup of that tutorial somewhere

Thank you again.

Thanks. You are right. The url is: https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin/wiki/Transfer-(sync)-a-backup-to-a-remote-location-using-Rsync-through-a-SSH-tunnel-between-2-Asus-routers