+#!/bin/bash
+
+# musical_wand: distributes music from our primary source to all hosts that are listed
+# as being redundant copies for the music.
+
+# this script is designed to be run on the music host with the super alpha main source of
+# music plugged in as an external drive. that being said, it will still work as long as
+# the music host has its local copy intact; the local copy of the primary is always what
+# is synched onto the other archive hosts. in that sense, the musical host is itself a
+# musix archive, but it is treated "special".
+
+source "$FEISTY_MEOW_SCRIPTS/core/launch_feisty_meow.sh"
+
+#hmmm: add the goodness around these actions like the "nice" updater so we catch all errors.
+
+# this host is where all the music is supposed to come from.
+MUSICAL_HOST=curie
+
+#hmmm: this script is currently limited to run ON the music host. it could easily do the backwards thing instead, and copy FROM music host.
+
+# the list of hosts we know of that are holding onto duplicate copies of the musix archive.
+#old list MUSIX_ARCHIVE_SITE_LIST=(surya banshee wildmutt euphrosyne)
+MUSIX_ARCHIVE_SITE_LIST=(euphrosyne)
+#hmmm: list was contracted a lot, since we don't want to step on the updates done by syncthing. euphrosyne is still our reference copy for what the archive states "should" be.
+
+if [[ ! ( $(hostname) =~ .*${MUSICAL_HOST}.* ) ]]; then
+ echo "This script is only designed to run on $MUSICAL_HOST with the"
+ echo "primary fred music source (external) disc plugged in."
+ exit 1
+fi
+
+# synch our local copy on the music host with the primary music drive, source of all goodness.
+function get_music_from_alpha_site()
+{
+ sep
+ echo "getting musix and basement from fred music prime device"
+ rsync -av /media/fred/fredmusicprime/musix/* /z/musix/
+ rsync -av /media/fred/fredmusicprime/basement/* /z/basement/
+ sep
+ echo
+}
+
+# updates the music on a remote host to our current local copy on the music host.
+function update_musix_pile()
+{
+ sep
+ local host="$1"; shift
+ echo "$host: synching musix and basement"
+ rsync -avz /z/musix/* ${host}:/z/musix/
+ rsync -avz /z/basement/* ${host}:/z/basement/
+ sep
+ echo
+}
+
+##############
+
+# make sure the local machine, our first-stop musix host, is in good shape.
+get_music_from_alpha_site
+
+# run through the steps of updating all our machines.
+for i in ${MUSIX_ARCHIVE_SITE_LIST[@]}; do
+ update_musix_pile $i
+done
+
+