Re: Proper FTP manager required
- From: "Philip Herlihy" <foof8501@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 13:44:59 +0000 (UTC)
I've used webdrive (www.webdrive.com) for a few years to do this. WD mounts
a remote server as a network drive on your PC, allowing you to use any
program (including DOS scripts) to access the server. Although it can get
confused if you run multiple concurrent sessions (eg browsing the site with
Explorer while uploading files at the same time) it's otherwise highly
reliable, with built-in retries.
I've always used it with Robocopy, which is available free from microsoft as
part of the Windows 2003 Resource Kit Tools. RC is an industrial-strength
file synchronisation and copying tool, with myriad options which take some
time to learn - this is simplified if you use the /L (just list actions but
don't do them) option, and the /JOB option, which allows you to save all
your options in an editable "job" file. Try this:
robocopy folder1 folder2 /L /save:myjobfile /quit
That'll write out a (commented!) job file which you can then tweak, and when
you're happy, remove the /L to make it really do it.
I run a simple batch file:
title Uploading....
robocopy /job:somejobfile
title Done!
pause
I double-click the batch file (having connected via Robocopy), minimise the
dos-box and some time later (seconds or hours) the label on the dos-box icon
changes to "Done!".
Although there's a bit of effort in creating the job file, the investment in
time is repaid over and over, and I can't imagine doing it any other way.
Happy to share scripts and jobfiles on request.
As it happens, the latest version of Webdrive now incorporates folder
synchronisation capabilities, so you may not even need to use Robocopy.
Just set it up, and Webdrive will do the rest automatically. A killer app
if ever there was one.
Otherwise, I liked FileZilla (free), which has a "queue" and is an excellent
"explorer" type ftp client, but having tried Webdrive I'd never use anything
else.
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"Astra" <No@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi All
Wondered if you could help.
I've created a web site system that a number of users use on their sites,
but I manage each individual site/system on my ISP's server.
Creating updates to this system was fine when I only had a few users, but
now its starting to become hard work uploading the required files to each
site (I use CuteFTP) so I wondered if you knew of an FTP app that would
allow me to automate the process.
I basically want to put a file or files in a local folder and then
instruct
the app to auto-upload these files to the same places, but on each site.
If
required, I can create the folder structure locally so that the app goes
through a set of folders locally and uploads them to the same places on
the
sites.
Do you know of an app that can automate the process of uploading the same
files to certain directories across multiple FTP sites?
Rgds Robbie
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