DCAF Module/Feature Wish List

[MPCC]

File Transfer Module

Need to automagically copy files to network shares on a schedule.

can use cron... not easy for end users to reconfigure

[MattP]

What transfer protocol(s)?

Would all files in a particular directory (or subdirectories thereof) work, or would you also need some form of regex match?

One destination or multiple?

Delete after transfer option?

Authenticated?

...what else?

[MPCC]

Yes.

[MPCC]

JK

FTP and something to get us to a network shared folder.

I'm OK with backing up a whole directory. I'm a bit fuzzy on the whole what happens if it's a TDMS file that is still being written to...

It'd be nice to setup multiple jobs in a single module and configure schedule per job.

That way, if we needed one to many, we could just setup multiple jobs.

Delete after transfer is a bonus but only if it can be smart enough to not delete open files. Particularly TDMS - I know from running out of disk space that TDMS files that aren't closed get gross.

Authentication would be necessary for it to be useful.

Thanks for the response!

[MattP]

Re: TDMS files, the usual approach is to have the logging module write to the active files in a different directory, then when a file is complete and closed, move it to a transfer staging directory.  That way the transfer process only ever has to care about files in its directory, and outsource the closing and moving logic to other processes.

[MPCC]

doh..