Reliability of background FTPing

[wow at together.net]

Jim,

Using Windows XP.

The question is not about checking whether or not the file was transferred
correctly. I'm already 
comparing the sizes before and after. The question is about reliability and
predictability. Is there any 
reason to expect differences in foreground vs background ftp'ing?

Thanks.
Richard

Original Message:
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From: Jim Ault JimAultWins at yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 18:36:20 -0700
To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
Subject: Re: Reliability of background FTPing 


On 6/15/06 5:52 PM, "Richard Miller" <wow at together.net> wrote:

> (Not sure what happened with the first email. Will try again)
> 
> We have a Rev application that uploads and downloads 1-2 mb files to
> our server approximately 5-10 times per hour. Currently, we are doing
> all of that ftp'ing in the foreground. We'd like to do it in the
> background. The question is about reliability. We have other
> activities ongoing, such as video capture and video replay. Would
> these activities effect background ftp'ing or be effected by it? The
> files must be transferred reliably.

You did not say what operating system you are using.

If Rev only solution, try using one of the following or both approaches:

if there is a file (path and filename) ..dnld began
if there is a file (url binary:/path and filename) .. upload began

set the defaultfolder to (path)
put the detailed files into fileList
--check item 5 of the line of the file you want to track for size change.

Perhaps getting the file size on the ftp server would allow size check
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A different approach is to set the log field of the process and monitor the
messages posted there.
use libUrlSetLogField, making careful note of the syntax required

<you may need to check the syntax since I cannot break in to my Rev which is
running a critical program at the moment>

Jim Ault
Las Vegas


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