Longest FTP you ever did?

[gfx25]

Must say I'm starting to fall in love with WinSCP it's giving me errors that Filezilla didn't and just making my life easier. How ever I notice there was an option to Shut down once you finished FTPing and I thought, wow you must of had to have a lot of files to want to select that option, so what's the longest amount you've ever FTP'd?

I honestly can't say right now.

[Chris]

Jul 7, 2011 3:34:09 GMT -8 @gfx25 said:

Must say I'm starting to fall in love with WinSCP it's giving me errors that Filezilla didn't and just making my life easier. How ever I notice there was an option to Shut down once you finished FTPing and I thought, wow you must of had to have a lot of files to want to select that option, so what's the longest amount you've ever FTP'd?

I honestly can't say right now.

Wordpress uploads/downloads can take a while since they have so many files (partially because of jQuery.) I've taken 20+ minutes to upload the entirety of one of my projects because I forgot to tell it not to upload SVN files.

In terms of backing up an -entire- server, I did just run it over night once and set it to shut off once complete (with no failed downloads)... sadly, there was a failed download. Or 50.

[gfx25]

The only failed transfers I've ever had was due to the program not liking the file name or something like that

[Chris]

Jul 7, 2011 4:37:13 GMT -8 @gfx25 said:

The only failed transfers I've ever had was due to the program not liking the file name or something like that

When you run uploads in parallel, sometimes the simultaneous connections don't go over as well.

[Charles Stover]

Something like 3-6 hours. I always ran it in the background and went off to do other things, so I can't say for sure. Mostly when porting backups from one server to the next, or when releasing a new file host (that is, files that are already pre-existing and arranged; not user-created files).

Like when I released files.gamingmedley (no longer existent), it had a good many gigs in it. It was just a huge collection of videos, music, images, and programs that were game-related. It has 5gb on it on the backup I still have on my computer. That, however, is after I deleted all the videos (I just uploaded them to YouTube and deleted the physical copies since they were taking up too much space).

[Luke]

A few hours. It was a wordpress theme and for some reason it would just ban my ip for half an hour every so often while uploading and I couldn't carry on till the half an hour was up =/