WCM FTP deployment

[rscheele]

Hello,

i have some web space where i can upload files using ftp. Using Alfresco Deployment, i can define a File Server Receiver (FSR) which connects to a remote server using RMI. I don't understand RMI and i wouldn't know if my web server supports it, but the most obvious way for me would be to connect with FTP. Can i do that somehow with Alfresco Deployment? I have read through the wiki and search the forums but couldn't find anything about it.

[pmonks]

The only caveat to using rsync is that I've found it to be quite chatty, so if you're running it over a low bandwidth or high latency connection, you may find you're better off using vanilla FTP (which seems to be better behaved on those kinds of connections).  It seems a bit counter intuitive that a "dumb" protocol such as FTP can be more performant in some cases, but I guess calculating which blocks have changed is an (I/O and network) expensive operation.

Cheers,
Peter

[tommorris]

I think you're probably right Peter.
BTW: You can can also configure rsync to perform file-level diffs - maybe that speeds things up a bit.

[boneill]

Hi guys,
Thanks alot for the suggestions.  I will look into rsynch.  It sounds like the right solution for this problem.  While I am on the subject, where do you download the FSR softeware from.

Regards