bulk ftp out of alfresco

[rreeves]

I would like to be able do a bulk ftp of a large group of files to another system. Can this be done in alfresco? If so, how?
Thanks,
Russ

[kevinr]

Alfresco has built-in FTP access. Just point your FTP client to port 21 to the machine that Alfresco is running on!

Thanks,

Kevin

[rreeves]

Hey Kevin,
Thanks for the useful info. I also need to know if you can somehow get a group of files out of the repository, zip them up into one file so it can be ftp'd. The main issue here is that there will be a large number of files and doing them one at a time is not an option.

I need something like this:
1. Select a large group of files in the repository (like a folder with several hundred files).
2. Save them to a directory in the file system all at once.
3. zip, tar or jar them.
4. Use port 21 to ftp them to wherever.

Can this be done without customizing the alfresco GUI or code?
Is this already a feature?
Many thanks,
Russ

[kevinr]

Export of a folder and its contents into a single file (.acp) is already supported. The ACP (Alfresco Content Package) format is in ZIP file format - but the names of the files will not be recognisable to you - but it will be fine for backup since the ACP file can be re-imported into Alfresco using the Import functionality.

Since we already have the ability to package up files and folders in our ACP format, i expect it would not be a lot of work to do the same into a pure ZIP file format (e.g. with the folder structures and filename intact as you would recognise them) - I suggest you raise a task in JIRA if the current functionality is not quite what you need.
http://www.alfresco.com/jira

Thanks,

Kevin