hcpupd 0.2.0

hcpupd - HCP upload daemon

hcpupd is a daemon that automatically uploads files to HCP.

It’s using the Linux inotify kernel subsystem to monitor a folder (aka watchdir), sending every file that is moved or written to it to HCP, immediately.

Features:

• Two different upload modes:

  1. Transfer the folder structure created in watchdir to HCP as it is

     • human-readable

     • performance-wise not the best possible solution

     • not tolerant against filename duplicates (except if the Namespace has Versioning enabled)

  or

  2. Obfuscate the folder structure on HCP by creating an UUID per file, used as filename as well as to construct a path to it

     • best possible ingest performance

     • 64k folders created at max. (to be precise: 256**2 + 256)

     • an unlimited number of hcpupd‘s can write into the same Namespace without the risk of filename conflicts

     • supports search for the original filename by adding an annotation to each file, which can be used by HCP’s Metadata Query Engine, Hitachi Content Intelligence or any other indexer that is able to crawl a HCP Namespace

• Optionally, auto-delete files from watchdir after successful upload

• Optionally, auto-delete folders after the last file has been uploaded

• Made to run as a Linux daemon (but can run in an interactive session as well)

• Extended logging available, incl. log rotation

Dependencies

A binary is provided (here) which should run on most up-to-date Linux derivates. No specific dependencies exist for it.

If you want to build the binary yourself (or just run the Python script directly), you need to have at least Python 3.4.3 installed. See the documentation for details.

Documentation

To be found at readthedocs.org

Installation

Install hcpupd by running:

$ pip install hcpupd

-or-

get the source from gitlab.com, unzip and run:

$ python setup.py install

-or-

Fork at gitlab.com

Contribute

• Source Code: https://gitlab.com/simont3/hcpupd

• Issue tracker: https://gitlab.com/simont3/hcpupd/issues

Support

If you’ve found any bugs, please let me know via the Issue Tracker; if you have comments or suggestions, send an email to mailto:[e-mail]

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2017 Thorsten Simons ([e-mail])

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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