The FTP Proxy is a FTP Server that allows you to connect through your favorite FTP Client to localhost and access your Nirvanix account.  This will enable simple uploading, downloading and other file operations through the FTP Protocol.

You can find the latest version at:

http://developer.nirvanix.com/files/folders/reference_code__applications/default.aspx 

Let me know if you have any issues with this application.

Regards,
    Barry R.
 

 Hi Barry,

 LOVE the ftp proxy ... was wondering if you had plans to allow for SecureFTP connections in the proxy.

|Brandon
 

It also appears that the proxy is also allowing for 'some' source and target (nirvanix) files to be diff'd which is allowing for quasi-incremental backup. We are currently testing incremental back and schedule through the SyncBackSE client as most of our windows-based customers use it for backup automation. Same holds true for WinSCP 4.0.5

"Cannot get modification date of file from FTP server"

What happens at this point is the source system thinks that all files on the nirvanix mount are older than the source files and thus the entire source data is copied in complete to the nirvanix mount (which we want to avoid).

-xequals

 I haven't added support for the MDTM command.  It should be easy to add if you want to give it a try before I get a chance to release the version 2 of the app.  There is a large (ugly) switch statement that handles each command that calls out to a series of functions to do the work.  You could add a case there and return the value you need.  The key is the actual date being returned.  You would probably have to use listFolder to return the CreatedDate. I plan on adding a few things for the next release:

• Partial File Upload via HTTP - This lets us avoid the overhead of the SOAP message.
• MDTM and a few other commands that were not in for 1.0
• Code cleanup to make it more OO and streamlined when doing many small files.

I don't have a time for the 2.0 release and looking at the other things that need to be done it will likely be a while.  So feel free to try the changes yourself and let me know if I can help.

Regards,
     Barry R.

My team is going to add in MDTM support and we will release the updates under the Nirvanix license.

 Barry, are there any other features you had planned for v2.0 that we could include as part of our work?

 |Brandon

http://www.x-equals.com

 

Since there are a few other priorities ahead of the 2.0 release only minimal work has been started on the next release.  I will post any improvements right away so be assured you will get anything as soon as its ready for release.  One thing you could potentially use is the http partial file upload sample which I will be releasing soon.

Regards,
     Barry R.

My goal is to enable our very large base of ftp-client customers who are familiar with their ftp clients to be able to leverage and snap in a nirvanix destination for the backup(s). We are looking at customers who transfer 25gb to 1tb of files on a monthly basis. This also holds true for our customers who use third party tools like SyncbackSE and Winscp to provide incremental backup(s). With MDTM inclusion I think we can immediately enable these customers to continue with their existing tools, yet make nirvanix the data repository - and use the FTP client of choice to expose files/directories, etc.

Our time-to-market is NOW ;-) but I will keep our team abreast of your updates (HTTP included).

 Thanks!

 |Brandon
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 This sounds fantastic, please let me know if you have any questions during your implementation or customization.  One thing that I was also working on is a Windows service interface as an alternate to the Console.  This would allow you to install in a server environment or to run unattended while logged off.  A few things would need to be done such as adding a EventViewer logger vs the current logger, and a change to the application startup / wrapper.

Regards,
     Barry R.