There's a script that runs daily at 9:00 to confirm that all data have been copied from the instruments onto astro.suth and astro.cape. The script can be viewed [https://bitbucket.org/snippets/saao/5jbX9/compares-pairs-of-directories-and-lists here] while logged into Bitbucket.
=== How it works ===
This requires [http://paramiko.org Paramiko], is currently configured inside of my home directory on astro2015.cape.saao.ac.za at /home/briehan/check_data.py and works by checking for the existence of fits files inside of the directories for this month and last month.