Download a File and Store it to a USB Flash Drive

If you need to download a File and store it to a USB flash drive attached to a router you can use the script below.

You need to configure the download URL and the local File name at the beginning of the script

## URL where to download from
DOWNLOADURL="http://www.mywebserver.com/niceFile.bin";
## URL where to save the file to (without USB Media Folder)
LOCALFILE="downloaded-file.bin";

download-to-usb.are

 
## URL where to download from
DOWNLOADURL="http://www.mywebserver.com/niceFile.bin";
## URL where to save the file to (without USB Media Folder)
LOCALFILE="downloaded-file.bin";
 
 
## FTP/HTTP Credentials
USR="";
PWD="";
 
USBDEV="usb0";
USBDIR="/mnt/media/usb0/";
 
ret = nb_media_mount(USBDEV);
if (ret == 0) {
    nb_syslog("Successfully mounted usb0\n");
}
else {
  nb_syslog("Unable to mount usb0 (rc %d)\n", ret);
}
 
 
mounted = nb_media_getmount();
nb_syslog(sprintf("Mounted media:",mounted));
 
 
 
if (nb_transfer_get(USR, PWD, DOWNLOADURL, sprintf("%s/%s",USBDIR,LOCALFILE)) == -1) {
    nb_syslog("could not download %s", DOWNLOADURL);
} else { 
nb_syslog(sprintf("downloaded: %s to %s on usb drive",DOWNLOADURL,LOCALFILE));
}
 
nb_media_umount(USBDEV);