Hello,
I have a feeling that this is a really stupid question, but I've looked for ages and I can't find wat I am looking for.

I want to create a script that does the following:
Start WinSCP
Start a stored session
Synchronize local [local docs] [docs on server]

or,

The script starts when I start WinSCP
Start a stored session
Synchronize local [local docs] [docs on server]

I hope someone can help, because I really don't get the terminal: it sais I have to work on a seperate shell. Also I don't get the scrips on the website: it seems that many of them are scripts that start other scrips, which all seems a little farfetched.

I'm looking forward to hearing from someone.

Kind regards,
Hendrik

script.txt:

script.bat

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Martin Prikryl

It works. Thanks!

Hi,
I am using a WinSCP sync script in conjunction with Windows Task Scheduler. When a sync occurs and a new local file is identified, are the entire contents of the file added to the remote server or just the new parts. The reason I ask is the files on the local server become quite large (~100MB) and we have about 15 local files that change about once an hour. If the sync is copying the entire contents at each sync, we're going to kill our T1 line.

Can you advise on this matter?

Thanks

I had a similar need, and after reading through the site, I arrived at this script which allows me to synchronize the files from a remote server to my local PC. I do this so that I have a copy of the most recent backups from my server to my PC.

I was delighted to find WinSCP as it allows me to do secure transfers between my server and my local PC, which I consider to be essential.

I have a directory on my server named "backups." In this directory, I have another directory, "archives" which holds the files that I want to copy. In "backups," I also have the script files to do my backups.

My script was derived from some I found on this site. At first, I planned to copy files from my server to my local PC, but then I found "synchronize" and this works better for me as it only copies the new files, that is, the most recent backups. I left the copy commands for reference. The script is:

# Automatically answer all prompts negatively not to stall
# the script on errors
option batch on
# Disable overwrite confirmations that conflict with the previous
option confirm off
# Connect
open user@server.org
# Change remote directory
cd backups
# Force binary mode transfer
option transfer binary
# Download file to the local directory
# get archives/* f:\backups\archives\*
# Delete downloaded files
# rm archives/*
# sync from remote to local
synchronize local f:\backups\archives archives
# Exit WinSCP
exit

I used Windows XP Scheduled Tasks to run this program weekly, a few hours after the backup is generated on the server. The command I used in Scheduled Tasks is:

C:\PROGRA~1\WinSCP\WinSCP.exe /console /script=f:\backups\download.txt /log=f:\backups\winscp.txt

This command runs WinSCP and uses the script "download.txt" and logs the results to "winscp.txt" These files are on my F: drive in the backups directory.

I hope that this script is useful to others.

Entire file content is transferred, as there's no way for WinSCP to verify that contents of the two files matches (apart from downloading the whole file of course )
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Martin Prikryl

I'm trying to follow this exactly, but when I run the open command, I always get an interactive window to choose the saved session, and the script seems to die. This is what I am using:



What am I doing wrong?[/code]

nevermind. I was using an old version.

For automation please read FAQ.
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Martin Prikryl

Thank u bdornbush

Hi I am wanting to create some script that will move all the files from an one of my servers to another. This is going to be used for backup purposes and run often.

I see the synchronization is the way to go and I have easily created some batch files that will do this with winscp.

However my problem lies in that I don't want all files from that folder moved only ones with the a file name that begins with "cl"

Here is my code.

Duplicate post:
http://winscp.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11712