Monday, August 04, 2008
FTP program
Retrosheet noted that after transferring half a million files, Ipswitch caused a mismatch in the filenames and file contents of several of those files. That’s a good success rate, but not the 100% that is needed.
Can you guys share your success stories in the FTP software that you use. I’m talking about moving tens of thousands of files at a time. I know I time out alot with Ipswitch, and I move just a few thousand files at a time. In terms of cost, I’d say anything under 50$ would be ok, though free is always preferred.
That’s a terrible success rate. As you noted, 100% is the only acceptable standard. I never have to do anything this large, so SCP or SFTP is fine for me. Therefore, I can only suggest a free solution, like FileZilla:
http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client