Microfilm

want a daemon or cron job or other to hoover up items

Bug #556150 reported by danh
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Microfilm
New
Wishlist
danh

Bug Description

Right now, one of the steps in our microfilm processing is that a human
goes through and queues items for uploading.

It would be nice if this could be done by some background process
to free up the human for more important tasks.

The background process could run from a central server and
periodically look in specific directories on the microfilm machines
to find things to upload. Or, it could run on each microfilm machine
individually, and ask a server to pull them off. (So in the latter scheme,
the microfilm machine itself would be performing the function that the human
is doing now.)

danh (danh-archive)
Changed in microfilm:
assignee: nobody → danh (danh-archive)
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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paul.n (paul-n) wrote :

Note: One thing we'll want to test is if we are able to upload successfully while the QuantumProcess program is open. Need to avoid the ssh deletion problems.

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paul.n (paul-n) wrote :

When it doesn't hoover up an item (due to one of the filters), we'd like to know why. Otherwise, the operator will need to constantly be investigating items on the drive to see why they aren't sucked up.

It's not so hard when there is a "failed.txt" in the directory but there are cases where it looks like it should have been sucked up but...for example, the item was never loaded (item not in db) or the item is a dupe upload (jp2s already uploaded).

The feedback we get now from the upload script is great but it is not stored anywhere and if we move to auto-uploading, we lose it altogether.

One obvious idea is keeping a log...

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