Adding to what Oleg said... GetSFTP has a property called Ignore Dotted Files which defaults to true and tells GetSFTP to ignore filenames that begin with dots which can help in this scenario if the uploader can upload to temporary file starting with a dot and rename when done.
-Bryan On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 11:10 AM, Oleg Zhurakousky < [email protected]> wrote: > Huagen > > Just to clarify. There isn’t really an SFTP server. SFTP is just an FTP > layer over SSH - allowing you to get FTP-like experience when accessing > file system over SSH. > Now, tis your question. > I am assuming you are implying that some other system is uploading a large > file. In any event a typical and well established pattern for > upload/download is to use temporary name until upload/download has finished > and then rename. This way the consuming system doesn’t see > “work-in-progress” until it is finished. In other words the consuming > system will never see that file until its fully uploaded. > > Hope this helps. > Cheers > Oleg > > > On Jun 3, 2016, at 10:59 AM, Huagen peng <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I need to get files from a SFTP server and then remove the files > afterward. GetSFTP seems to be the processor to use. If a user uploads a > large file, say 20G, to the server and the GetSFTP processor happens to be > running in the middle of the uploading, what is the expected behavior. > Does the processor pick up the file? If so, can the processor get the > entire file and then safely delete it? Does anybody has experience on that? > > > > Huagen > >
