It could copy only the differences of the file between your server and client if the same file already exists. Furthermore, you can write a cron script to run rsync between server and client without bothering of any userid and password authentication , if proper set-up being completed.
Some useful links (more links can be found at the second link below):
http://www.jdmz.net/ssh/ http://optics.ph.unimelb.edu.au/help/rsync/
Good luck!
Daniel Z
Mark Freeze wrote:
A year or so ago I had a problem downloading a file via ftp onto a Windows box with WS_FTP. The file was about 100MB and I started downloading the file while my customer was still uploading, so I only got about half of the file. WS_FTP allowed me to do this with no error. (Which I thought was kinda crazy.)
Now I have an offsite ftp spot that my customers use to send me files at random times during the day. I want to automatically download and process these files onto my box as soon as they appear on the site so I was thinking that I would scehedule up a cron job to look for these files every 10 min. When I do this am I going to have the problem of seeing the file and trying to get it as they are uploading? Some of these files are over 100MB and might take my customer a while to upload. Someone told me to make sure that I have exclusive access to the file before I download it, but since I have no control over the ftp server I'm not sure on how to accomplish that task.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Mark.
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