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kari
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by kari » 2011-11-15 04:51
Hi,
I was wondering if it was possible to use filezilla as a website to website file copier? Is this possible? I have backups on my website and I currently download them to my computer but they take sometimes more than six hours to download. I was wondering if it would be possible to copy them across like the program x-copy/xtree gold
but for the web. Or does it do that already
Thanks.
Defiantly a 1D10T error.
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boco
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by boco » 2011-11-15 07:07
FileZilla does not support server-to-server transfers.
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barbaracruz
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by barbaracruz » 2011-11-19 16:43
Why dont you just use a direct connection and back them up on your second server?
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Hugh_K
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by Hugh_K » 2011-11-30 17:41
kari wrote:Hi,
I was wondering if it was possible to use filezilla as a website to website file copier? Is this possible? I have backups on my website and I currently download them to my computer but they take sometimes more than six hours to download. I was wondering if it would be possible to copy them across like the program x-copy/xtree gold
but for the web. Or does it do that already
Thanks.
I have the same issue. I wish I could just point to a folder on the server, right click it and drag it, let go of the mouse, get a context menu and choose copy here - like I can in windows explorer. I would really like to backup a site on the server before publishing the new changes I've made to the site.
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boco
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by boco » 2011-11-30 20:20
Unfortunately FTP doesn't support copying on the same server at all.
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Hugh_K
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by Hugh_K » 2011-11-30 21:55
boco wrote:Unfortunately FTP doesn't support copying on the same server at all.
Hmm... In dreamweaver I can drag a folder from one place to another on the server tree. I can also do a copy and paste, but it seems like it downloads to a temp folder on my local computer then sends it back over when I do that.
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boco
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by boco » 2011-11-30 22:10
Exactly. There's simply no feature in the FTP protocol allowing this. You correctly observed that your HTML editor does this with a workaround for your website. But wouldn't you save one step by simply uploading the local copy two times?
There's also the difference between DW and FileZilla: While the first one is a website maintaining tool, the latter is not. FileZilla is an FTP generic file transfer tool, used for very large files, thus such a feature isn't in it.
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seema123
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by seema123 » 2011-12-01 09:35
Hi,
You can configure IIS to allow server-to-server FTP transfers by changing the EnableDataConnTo3rdIP and EnablePasvConnFrom3rdIP keys in the system registry. By default, the EnablePasvConnFrom3rdIP registry key is disabled to prevent malicious attacks against the FTP service.
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