YADE Advanced File Transfer

Introduction

YADE provides a wide range of basic and advanced file transfer features

Send and receive, e.g. move and/or copy, files by FTP to/from a target host.
A wide range of protocols:
- FTP, SFTP, FPTS,
- HTTP/HTTPS FEATURE AVAILABILITY STARTING FROM RELEASE 1.7
- WebDAV FEATURE AVAILABILITY STARTING FROM RELEASE 1.8
- File System, UNC names, Samba (SMB)
ASCII and binary file transfer modes
Host to host file transfer without touch down, using different protocols, e.g. transfer from SFTP to FTP.
Execute commands by SSH on the source and/or the target host at the beginning or the end or during transmission.
Send files by FTP or SFTP to a jump host and forward them by FTP or SFTP to a target host.
Different transfer protocols can be used between local host and jump_host and between jump_host and target host.
Receive files from a remote host by FTP or SFTP to a jump host and forward them by FTP or SFTP to the local host.
Different protocols can be used for transfer between the hosts.
Password and public key authentication are supported for SFTP.
File transfer parameterization by command line parameters and/or by configuration files.
There is a common syntax for parameters, no matter what transfer type is configured.
All parameters are specified on the client exclusively.
Logging and error handling are provided; errors are detected on a per file basis.
A test mode

Selection of files which names are matched by a regular expression.
Polling (waiting) for files.
Checking the steady state of all files before starting transfer.
Recursive transfer of files in sub folders.
Atomic Transfer to avoid any partially transferred file being picked up by directory watchers.
Transactional Behavior.
Check transferred files for completeness.
Handling of empty files.
Renaming of files.
Use of alternative access data and credentials
Support for UNC paths in directory names.
Track record of file transfers.
Parallel file transfer (multi-threading).
Creating and checking hash values (e.g. MD5).
Compress (e.g. with ZLIB ) or zip files or groups of files.
Uses the compression feature of the server, if present and possible.
Rename files without transfer.
Delete files without transfer.
Pre- and post-processing of file transfers