At my previous job I had a number of production test rigs in China for testing PCB assemblies as they came off the manufacturing line. These rigs would sit on t

At my previous job I had a number of production test rigs in China for testing PCB assemblies as they came off the manufacturing line. These rigs would sit on the shelf for months at a time and be pulled out to fo a run of a couple thousand boards then put away again. We wanted to collect some stats about the boards being tested but The internet in the factory was really flakey and we didn't want to pay for a 4G internet plan for a rig that was turned off most of the time. I eventually went for a cron job that would just try uploading all the local logs to s3 through rsnapshot every 15min. It worked great and was less than 20 lines of shell script.