Number of connections not working?

Hi,

I'm working on Win8, 64b

I want to download several websites by ftp in the command line interface. So therefore I script first 1 site, if this is working well I will add the other 150 sites

So first I created a batch file:

md n:\backupftp\ithaka.im\public_html
winscp.exe /script="ithaka.txt" /ini=WinScp.ini /log=log.txt

Then the content of the script file
open ftp://xxxx:xxxxx@ftp.ithaka.im/domains/ithaka.im/public_html
lcd n:\backupftp\ithaka.im\public_html
get *.*

Everything is working good, but only with 1 connection. So I opened the GUI. Set I looked in the manuals and did:
Set transfer in background to yes
Enable que processing by default.

In the GUI interface it is working well. In the cmd line version not. I looked into the help sections, google etc etc but cannot find it.

Is the cmd line version supporting this or should I do something else? How to get it running with 8 connections....

For me it doesn't matter what kind of interface is displayed. As long as I can all command by script.

Any support will be appreciated.

You didn't tell us what you did to script multiple connections.

Sure it is possible, just repeat the same script for all connections.

Or actually see
https://winscp.net/eng/docs/script_upload_multiple_servers

martin wrote:

You didn't tell us what you did to script multiple connections.

I did: i opened the GUI and set the options as described here:
https://winscp.net/eng/docs/transfer_queue

As the GUI uses the same ini file these options should be used in the cmd line version. But I get the feeling the cmd line version is not displaying it or I should do it differently.

It is not about 10 connections to 10 servers. It's is about 10 or 8 connections to the same server.

Ps: you wrote a nice peace of software !

OK, so you want that single script to run over multiple parallel connections, right? It's not supported in scripting.

martin wrote:

OK, so you want that single script to run over multiple parallel connections, right? It's not supported in scripting.

Thxs, clear.

Can I give the scripting commands to the GUI interface. So the interface is displayed in a window and is doing this task? Is that supported?

For me it doesn't matter if I see a dos window or GUI interface as long as I can put the command by scripting to the tool. The number of websites I want to backup is growing and the scripts command will be generated from a database ...

Hi Mike,

Thxs for your feedback here and on superuser.

To make it more clear. I want more the one connection to one single ftp server with the use of scripting.
The cmd line version is not supporting this. That's clear. So I now use the .exe file but I cannot get this work. I now have:

Download.bat
md n:\backupftp\ithaka.im\public_html
winscp.exe /script="ithaka.txt"

And the Ithaka.txt scirpt file
open ftp://xxxx@ftp.ithaka.im/domains/ithaka.im/public_html
lcd n:\backupftp\ithaka.im\public_html
get *.*


I can see in the windows task manager that it is running. I do not see any interface anymore (no dos box, no GUI). If i turn on logging to a file I can see 1 connection to 1 server.

I only get it working when I use drag en drop in the GUI, so I guess the only question left is....

Can it be possible that winscp will download parallel connections from 1 single ftp server other then the drag and drop methode?

As I wrote already parallel transfers are not supported in scripting. Nor you can control the GUI queue from a command-line..

You can though create a number of batches (with different sets of websites) and run those in parallel.

See https://winscp.net/eng/docs/library_example_parallel_transfers
And my answer on https://superuser.com/q/1035146/213663#1036128