Autocopy any usb drive/pen to hd

[nine1one4u]

Hello,

I've tried to Google and searched this forum for help on this issue, but can't find any.

So what is my challenge?

I want Ubuntu to copy all content from a usb drive or pen into my hard drive automatic. Any one have a good script or program for this?

Looking forward to your reply.

Kindly regards
nine1one4u

[kmitnick]

assuming the script is /usr/local/bin/script.sh and it is executable.

first we have to add new rule to udev

sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/10.usbcopy.rules

then add this
SUBSYSTEM=="usb",RUN+="/usr/local/bin/script.sh"

so anytime you plug in/out this will be executed
if you want just in case of addition add this

bla bla ,ACTION=="add",bla bla

NOTE: the previous is not only for stick memory it can be USB CAM or bluetooth so if you want to be specific then
try attr for full documentation

See Here

[nine1one4u]

Thanks for the help, but I tried to get this working and I've read the rules with out any luck. Is there a easy way to check out if the rules are okay?
My way of testing this was just to put:
echo "USB is activated"
in the script to see if it was printing this with no luck.

I'm a newbie as well in scripting, every thing is solved by programs even when I have been using Linux RedHat and Fedora for over 10 years now as the only OS.

The past couple of years we have been using Ubuntu at some servers at work and that's where I want to use this functionality.
So could you please advise me a bit more.

[kmitnick]

first of all welcome to the Ubuntu family,
the script I 've given you are being run in the background so you can't see it, and for the first time I was using it I was so frustrated because it didn't work for me, but it was my fault since I didn't know how to shell script, so I use a build it command to test and it was poweroff, and so every time my box boots and finds a usb attached it shuts down so I had to use LiveCD to delete my shell code, any way what I am trying to say here is : make sure of your shell script and may you post here the content of your desired shell script...