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FTP - transfer checksum

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kinliang

02 Aug, 2015 01:22 PM

It will be great if the deployment will do checksum against previous transfer (same file) before begin the FTP file transfer. If same, then it will skip the transfer. With this, it can speed up the deployment, and save your server bandwidth (network+IO+processing power).

Of course this can be option that user can enable to "speed-up" the deployment or disable it for always replace.

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 02 Aug, 2015 06:04 PM

   

   Maybe you can use WinSCP instead of built-in FTP deployment. Looks like it can be installed with Chocolatey: https://chocolatey.org/packages/winscp

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2. 2 Posted by kinliang on 03 Aug, 2015 12:17 AM

   

   Thanks for the response, currently
   I using your platform to CD, how do I install the Winscp to your platform?

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3. 3 Posted by kinliang on 03 Aug, 2015 01:46 AM

   

   I have attached my setup on deployment, please advise how do I enable that?

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4. Support Staff 4 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 03 Aug, 2015 01:58 AM

   

   It can be installed with the following command added to "Install" section:

   choco install winscp
   

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5. 5 Posted by kinliang on 03 Aug, 2015 03:08 AM

   

   Thanks for the swift response,

   I just added it settings/environment -> Install script section.

   Do I need to do anything else?

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6. Support Staff 6 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 03 Aug, 2015 03:12 AM

   

   The idea is to use your own deployment script instead of built-in AppVeyor provider. You should replace built-in FTP deployment method with your own command calling winscp command line. Sorry, I don't have a ready example, but I think it could be easily googled.

   Btw, why wouldn't just replace FTP with WebDeploy (if you control target server of course)? Web Deploy is way more effective in managing partial updates.

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7. 7 Posted by kinliang on 03 Aug, 2015 03:14 AM

   

   The problem is the hosting that I using don't support WebDeploy :(, it only support FTP And for my case it will take more than one hour to complete transfer.

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8. 8 Posted by kinliang on 05 Aug, 2015 01:20 PM

   

   I going to try, so I choose script over the provider?

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9. Support Staff 9 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 05 Aug, 2015 03:05 PM

   

   Yes

   - Feodor

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10. 10 Posted by kinliang on 06 Aug, 2015 03:38 AM

    

    Always thanks for the swift response, where can I get the list of "variable" and how do I know where the "artifcat" path saved and located? before I use command to extract it, upload it.

    http://www.appveyor.com/docs/environment-variables

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11. Support Staff 11 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 06 Aug, 2015 04:20 AM

    

    There is $artifacts hashtable in PowerShell context: http://www.appveyor.com/docs/packaging-artifacts#getting-informatio...

    You can take the first artifact's path as the following:

    deploy_script:
    - ps: '$env:ApplicationPath=$artifacts.values[0].path'
    - your command with %ApplicationPath%
    

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12. Ilya Finkelshteyn closed this discussion on 25 Aug, 2018 01:58 AM.