Episode 66: Moving Your Code
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Learn to transfer files securely and effectively.
News and Follow-ups – 00:38
- Mark steps on USB cable and just about ruins Faceoff
- Titanpad – Etherpad resurrected
Geek Tool – 04:27
- Hand Powered 3-LED Flashlight – Squeeze it to recharge so you can always have light
- Coast Cutlery LL7575 Auto LED Light – Light that recharges in your car port
Webapps – 07:58
- PDFcrowd – Create PDFs from HTML (URLs, Inputted html)
- ManPacks – Subscribe to your manly essentials
Topic – 17:27
- File Transfer
- FTP
- The RFC was in 1971
- No encryption, everything is in the clear and is vulnerable to sniffing
- FTPS
- FTP over SSL
- SFTP
- SSH extension for FTP. (not just a tunnel over ssh).
- SCP
- RCP over SSH
- Rsync
- Super efficient, often used for doing amazon S3 transfers when you are paying for bandwidth by the byte.
- Only transfers the bytes that are missing
- Duplicity - Supports rsync like efficiency on encrypted files
- WebDAV
- Clients
- Workflow
- Capistrano
- Ruby
- Can use any of the protocols above
- Fabric
- Python
- Can use any of the protocols above
- Version control
- Git, HG, Subversion etc.
- Capistrano
- FTP
May 6th, 2010 at 9:36 am
Windows has an Rsync like utility called RoboCopy. Works great for transferring files between Windows boxes.
I use it to back up files on our LAN and email me the results of the backup.