Need Suggestions for Auto FTP Software

[Roundabout]

Let's say you have an FTP site that you connect to daily, that has hundreds of folders in it, and you have an employee who laborously has to go inside each folder, grab the latest new files, and download them locally to your own master folder list.

What is a good FTP program to automate this? Ideally, we'd like to set it up so it just FTPs at night, grabs whatever new files exist in all the folders, and automatically downloads them so by morning, both local PC and FTP files are in synch.

Thx in advance for any suggestions.

 

[kblessinggr]

Well if you had a linux box at the office you could just setup rsync on a cron job.

 

[Roundabout]

Yeah I need something more idiot proof and something with icons and menus so the person assigned to this task wont screw it up. All our internal servers arent linux regardless....

 

[nvanprooyen]

I was looking for something similar awhile back and ran across this - IT Automation - AutoMate 7 - Network Automation

I ended up never needing to use it, but it looks like they have a free 30 day. Not sure how expensive / easy it is to use though.

 

[rawservices]

There are a ton of different FTP software that can "sync" your files, which Im assuming is pretty much what your doing in this case.

rsync seems to work very well, give it a shot!

 

[Roundabout]

TY guys.. +rep

 

[DBWebDev]

2BrightSparks | SyncBackSE | Features

I think the free version might do what you're after too - can sync remote FTP to local harddrive.

 

[ashbeats]

Yeah I need something more idiot proof and something with icons and menus so the person assigned to this task wont screw it up. All our internal servers arent linux regardless....

If it's gonna be idiot proof, you best bet would be to get a coder to
write a customized application for your needs. Most commercial solutions
are massive and have loads of options and possibilities, so chances
of hitting the wrong button are high..

I'm a freelance coder myself so I know that this is not hard to do. Just
be completely clear to the coder about your needs.

 

[LotsOfZeros]

Just write some batch scripts and name each one for each job.
Pretty idiot proof. You could also use some command line programs for that as well such as WGet

 

[Sharksfan]

If you are only doing 1-way syncing - AND the files on the source server are new or modified - they should have some type of archive flag set. Technically what you are doing is not different than a backup, and a lot of backup software should be able to do this as well AND have a scheduler built in.