Keep Remote Directory Up-To-Date

Keep Remote Directory Up-to-date

How "real-time" do you want the syncing? I would still lean toward rsync since you know it is going to be fully supported on both platforms (Windows, too, with cygwin) and you can run it via a cron job. I have a super-simple bash file that I run on my system (this does not remove old files):

#!/bin/sh
rsync -avrz --progress --exclude-from .rsync_exclude_remote . remote_login@remote_computer:remote_dir    

# options
#   -a  archive
#   -v  verbose
#   -r  recursive
#   -z  compress 

Your best bet is to set it up and try it out. The -n (--dry-run) option is your friend!

Keep in mind that rsync (at least in cygwin) does not support unicode file names (as of 16 Aug 2008).

Winscp Keep remote directory up to date save custom Synchronize options as default

There's Use same options next time checkbox below.

WinSCP Keep Remote Directory Up To Date only synchronizes files once a minute

Unfortunately it's a limitation of how WinScp determines a file is updated, and the timestamp granularity that FTP provides. If possible, connect with SFTP which will provide second granularity.

Keep remote directory up to date using git

Create a hook in .git/hooks called post-receive. The file should contain the following...

#!/bin/sh
GIT_WORK_TREE=/path/to/where/you/want/working/files git checkout -f

I had some problems trying to get this to work with a git repo that wasn't --bare (use git init --bare when setting up, then put the working directory somewhere else)

example:

mkdir yourbarerepo.git
cd yourbarerepo.git
git init --bare
cd hooks
touch post-receive
nano post-recieve
  #paste in contents above
  #make sure the path where you want the working files to go is already created

Synchronizing today's files from remote to local directory using WinSCP

Use a file mask with a time constraint and today keyword:

synchronize local -filemask=">=today" "D:\ftp\OUT" /out

This syntax is supported by WinSCP 5.15 and newer only.

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In earlier versions of WinSCP, you can use the %TIMESTAMP% syntax to create the today's constraint.

synchronize local -filemask=">=%TIMESTAMP#yyyy-mm-dd%" "D:\ftp\OUT" /out

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Further reading:

• Question WinSCP time based file download;
• WinSCP article on Downloading the most recent file.

Keeping FTP Folder Constantly Up To Date Based On Local Folder

I am interested in this as well. I know about the Rsync option of course, but would like to have a Windows option that does the same thing..

Can I use git to keep a remote server up to date?

You have in this blog post an example of Git repo used for staging:

IDE => local Git repository => remote bare Git repository 
                                   => Git repository with the live web application

It involves a post-update hook on the bare repo side, in order to trigger the update of the repo on the live web server side.

The final step is to define the “post-update” hook script on the bare repository, which is called when the bare repository receives data.

To enable the “post-update” hook, we have to either make hooks/post-update executable or rename hooks/post-update.sample to hooks/post-update, depending on the Git version.

In this script, we simply change to the folder of the live application, and start the pull operation:

#!/bin/sh
cd $HOME/example.org
unset GIT_DIR
git pull bare master

exec git-update-server-info

The reason there is a bare remote repo is because it is “discouraged” to do a push into a repo with a working directory.

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