Comments on: Quick Tip: Synchronize Folders with Cyberduck

By: errors and uploads - x10Hosting Forums

errors and uploads - x10Hosting Forums — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:20:59 +0000

[...] errors and uploads Try Cyberduck, an FTP/FTPS/SFTP client. Its synchronization feature is very useful. __________________ Be sure to read all pages linked in this post; they [...]

By: Ian Brown

Ian Brown — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 17:51:23 +0000

We are using Cyberduck to upload our new website on I Web and having great difficulty. It took 6 hours to complete on our Rocket Stick. We made some corrections and once home from holidays downloaded with a cable to our computer instead of the Rogers stick.First we did it wireless to our Rogers modem then we used the ether cable , either case it took us in excess of 6 hrs to load 40 MB We have high speed express . This is high speed

By: Gabriel Rivera

Gabriel Rivera — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:16:02 +0000

Is there a way to make Cyberduck upload just the changes that you’ve done? Or do you have to upload the whole web page again.

By: Hans Bangkok

Hans Bangkok — Mon, 18 May 2009 06:15:13 +0000

@Stuart

Doing a sync via FTP requires using the file attributes AFAIK – usually done via the timestamps (only sync up files that are newer in the source than the target), but since iWeb sets a new timestamp every time it publishes to folder, that won’t work. Cyberduck is comparing the filesize attribute instead, so as you noticed if you make a change that happens to leave the filesize the same it won’t get flagged as having changed.

AFAIK there isn’t a way to do a compare of the actual contents via FTP, and I believe that would require a full download anyway, so wouldn’t save any time and would only be helpful for hosting services that charged for uploads more than downloads (never heard of such a thing).

So you either 1 need a host that will allow you to work with rsync, 2 make sure you change the filesize when you make an edit or 3 every once in a while do a full overwrite/upload.

Hope that helps.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Tue, 12 May 2009 20:35:35 +0000

Hi Tim,

Thanks for the post. Seems that the sync is rather simple in cyberduck. Tried getting rsync working, but my terminal command line skills arent the best. That would be my preference, rsync is pretty awesome in terms of flexibility.

I want cyberduck to run a compare, and keep the newest change to files. Trying to create a mirror between my webserver and my local mac.

If I delete a file locally it deletes on the webserver, AND vice versa.
If I ammend a PHP file, and the file size is the same, it misses it! I think I need rsync!

Any thoughts?

Cheers

Stu

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:40:07 +0000

Hey Tim,
I’ve managed to do everything right except get Lingon to run my script. I haven’t quite got the hang of Lingon yet. What do I need to enter into the dialog steps in Lingon to make the script run whenever I change anything in my local folder of choice?

By: Jake

Jake — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:19:57 +0000

“A couple of keyword searches later and I found what I was looking for.”

What did you find? How did you make Cyber Duck start syncing automatically?