Opened 19 years ago
Last modified 10 years ago
#2353 closed Feature request
rsync support
| Reported by: | bagadat | Owned by: | Alexander Schuch |
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| Priority: | normal | Component: | FileZilla Client |
| Keywords: | Cc: | bagadat, Alexander Schuch, loqui, tehmul | |
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Description
your software is awesome... but i would love to request
a feature that i believe would be very useful....
i believe filezilla should also support rsync protocol...
the only reference i found to it is from #755621...
another thing that could be really nice is to have
filezilla working on mac os x... its just a thought...
thanks
Change History (3)
comment:1 by , 18 years ago
comment:3 by , 16 years ago
rsync support has been requested already, deleting this RFE. Please see the following item for details:
[ 755621 ] rsync capability would be fantastic
Furthermore, FileZilla 3 is multi-platform and runs on Windows, Unix and MacOS X. For the next time, please do not file a feature request if there is a request about the feature already. And please only propose one feature per request. Thanks alot!
I agree. Rsync can synchronize a server directory with the
local copy by calculating and uploading only the minimal
bytes that were changed. It also works within single
files, e.g. if a .zip archive has been updated, or if the
server's file has some corrupted bytes, then rsync can
upload the minimal differences to correct the server's
copy. Of course, the same algorithm can be used when
downloading files.
The bandwidth savings are so extreme that it's difficult to
understand why this concept was never incorporated into the
FTP protocol. There are no good GUI clients for rsync, so
FileZilla support might significantly improve its
popularity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsync_algorithm