ftpsync Alpha 1

I’ve just created a new GotDotNet workspace for ftpsync,
the tool I’ve been writing this weekend when I should have been doing work.
But you know how it goes – you sit down to update your webpage, you get tired
of trying to figure out which files you’ve changed since the last upload, you
look around for a free tool that does incremental FTP upload, and you don’t
find anything free and good. So you write one yourself…we’ve all been
there, right?

It turned out reasonably well, given that I only worked on it for a few hours, so
I figure I’d throw it up on a workspace and see what happens. It needs better
error handling, and I’m not super-happy about the FTP library I’m using
(edtFTPnet),
which saved me a ton of time, but has an interface which is a bit clunky, and has
somewhat weird error handling. Of course, it works and it’s free, so I’m
not complaining too much.

Basic usage of the tool goes something like this:

ftpsync -s my.ftp.server.com -u myusername
-p mypassword -ld C:\local\directory -rd /initial/remote/directory

This would cause the program to upload via FTP anything that lives in C:\local\directory
that either

1.      Isn’t
present on the FTP server, or

2.      Is
present on the FTP server but is older that what’s in the local directory

You can add the -r switch to recurse directories, and the -rd switch to delete anything
on the remote server that isn’t on the present server. I also threw in support
for the ignore files (-if) and ignore directories (-id) switches. Oh, and a –debug
switch that spews tons of extra info.

Anyway, I’ve already had success integrating this into a Nant build that I run
to update this website, so I’m getting my money’s worth. It seems stable
enough, but if there are feature requests or bug reports, leave a note on the workspace…or
better yet, join and upgrade/fix it yourself ;) .