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> On Mar 9, 2021, at 00:50, Karen K <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Unfortunately, my provider does not offer rsync.
> 
> [email protected] schrieb am Montag, 8. März 2021 um 23:39:30 UTC+1:
>> Thank you for mentioning rsync option Tom! I had completely forgotten this 
>> or missed it when I first set up weewx and yes indeed. It’s about an order 
>> of magnitude faster (about 18 seconds for for ftp upload and only 2sec or so 
>> for rsync). 
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>>>> On Mar 7, 2021, at 07:27, Tom Keffer <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>>> Good idea. A PR would be welcome.
>>> 
>>> If you have access to rsync, it effectively does this. it is a much faster 
>>> alternative to FTP.
>>> 
>>>> On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 7:15 AM Karen K <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> From the logs of the web server I realize that huge amounts of data are 
>>>> uploaded that did not change. Today I looked into the code of the FTP 
>>>> uploader. I saw that some kind of check is included which file needs to be 
>>>> uploaded and which not. This is done by comparing the file timestamp.
>>>> 
>>>> As the Cheetah generator re-creates a file every time it runs, 
>>>> unfortunately the file timestamp does not say anything whether the file 
>>>> content changed or not.
>>>> 
>>>> So I wonder whether it it would be better to calculate a hash of the file 
>>>> contents and use that hash instead of file timestamp to decide about 
>>>> upload.
>>>> 
>>>> The actual FTP Uploader does already maintain a file containing the file 
>>>> names of the uploaded files. So, may be, it is not that big step to 
>>>> include a hash into that file for comparison reasons.
>>>> 
>>>> An example for a file that seldom changes is the about page. It only 
>>>> changes if an update of WeeWX or some skin was installed for the version 
>>>> number. Other examples are imprint, privacy statement, FAQs, or other 
>>>> general information.
>>>> 
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