Schedule an automatic FTP upload on Windows with WinSCP

Question

Let me preface this with a disclaimer, I have never executed scripts on the UI of WinSCP.

I have a program on our server that generates a text file that I want to be sent to our organization's shared drive. While looking through the internet I came across a few solutions, such as the code below. (Credentials have been left out for obvious reasons)

option batch abort
option confirm off
open ftp://user:pass@server
synchronize local U:\DO Unitization\Team Member Folders\xxxxxxxx
exit

This is then saved as a .txt (abc.txt)

Then executed manually as winscp.com /script=abc.txt

This is not what I want, seeing as thought the whole purpose was to automate this. Also, only one file actually needs to be sent, not everything in the directory. As I said above, my knowledge is lacking in this area so I apologize for any miscommunication.

Thank you, Joshua Averbuch

Childs

Answer 1

For a start, see WinSCP guide to automating file transfers to FTP server.

A simple batch file (upload.bat) to upload a file to FTP server with WinSCP looks like:

winscp.com /log=c:\path\ftp.log /command ^
    "open ftp://user:[email protected]/" ^
    "put ""U:\DO Unitization\Team Member Folders\xxxxxxxx\file.txt"" ""/remote/path/""" ^
    "exit"

You can have the batch file generated by WinSCP GUI for you.

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For scheduling, simply use the Windows Scheduler.
For details see another WinSCP guide to scheduling file transfers to FTP server.

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Similarly for a download: How to schedule an automatic FTP download on Windows?

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Thank you, this is just what I needed – Childs