SFTP Software with Sync Ability

[Werdhi]

Hi. I am interested in finding an ftp (or multi-purpose file
backup/sync) program (freeware) that supports Secure FTP (e.g., SyncBack
looks good but does not support SFTP -- see http://www.syncback.com).
My University is discontinuing any insecure connections to its servers.
No more plain text passwords of any kind. This means telnet and all
simple FTP connections will be blocked. They have long distributed
Secure Shell SSH and SFTP but the FTP program does not have a sync capacity.

As they're not allowing simple FTP connections, I can no longer use
Frontpage for my website publishing (it doesn't support SFTP and they do
not support FP server extensions). I want to continue using Frontpage,
so I need to "publish" to my PC and then upload the files via a Secure
FTP connection. I can do that with Secure Shell, but it doesn't sync.
What I want to AVOID is having to upload EVERY file each time I publish
to update those files that I've changed. Frontpage does this as a
matter of course by keeping track of the files that have changed and
only uploading/publishing them to the server but I've yet to find a
Secure (or even insecure) FTP program (dedicated or otherwise) that will
upload only the CHANGED files when comparing my website directory (as
published locally on my computer) and the remote website (on the
University's server).

Any thoughts are helpful. If I'm not seeing a simple way out of this
(aside from purchasing a new web designer/publisher such as the current
Dreamweaver with built-in sftp), let me know (gently). TIA

BTW, I've dabbled with setting up a TUNNEL using SSH. I can't configure
Frontpage to publish "through" the tunnel (can't be done according to
Microsoft), but maybe I can setup an *insecure* ftp program to use the
SSH tunnel. Any ideas?

Best,

Werdhi

 

[JanC]

Werdhi <[email protected]> schreef:

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As they're not allowing simple FTP connections, I can no longer use
Frontpage for my website publishing (it doesn't support SFTP and they
do not support FP server extensions). I want to continue using
Frontpage, so I need to "publish" to my PC and then upload the files
via a Secure FTP connection. I can do that with Secure Shell, but it
doesn't sync. What I want to AVOID is having to upload EVERY file each
time I publish to update those files that I've changed. Frontpage
does this as a matter of course by keeping track of the files that
have changed and only uploading/publishing them to the server but I've
yet to find a Secure (or even insecure) FTP program (dedicated or
otherwise) that will upload only the CHANGED files when comparing my
website directory (as published locally on my computer) and the remote
website (on the University's server).

FileZilla supports SFTP, but has no real sync function (it can do "upload
when newer", but won't detect deleted files/directories).

It seems like WinSCP can do what you want:

BTW, I've dabbled with setting up a TUNNEL using SSH. I can't
configure Frontpage to publish "through" the tunnel (can't be done
according to Microsoft), but maybe I can setup an *insecure* ftp
program to use the SSH tunnel. Any ideas?

SFTP is *not* FTP over SSL, so that's not gonna work...

 

[Brian Pipa]

I use winscp for all my SFTP needs. Not sure if it does the CHANGED
files stuff you want though.

Brian