You really have to be more specific. Determine how critical this process is and how bad things would be if a process failed for some reason. You should also determine a list of possible snafu's, and determine which ones you want to handle based on how likely they are to happen, for example:

- what happens if ftp.foo.tld goes down?
- what happens if you run out of disk space on locally?

Also, initially, you may want to generate some sort of email report that lists in detail what happened, and if something went awry.

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