New to scripting...and stuck!

I regularly use winscp to synchronise two ftp folders manually, always with great success.
I thought it would be nice to do this automatically, scheduled by windows task scheduler.

The manual method I use is: Log-in and have both directories on screen. From the commands menu choose Synchronize. Select "local", "mirror" and nothing ticked in comparison data (I have my reasons!). This achieves the result I want every time.

I'd be most grateful if someone could give me a partial script as a starting point, or point me in the right direction to achieve the same result.

Many thanks.

Please read documentation:
https://winscp.net/eng/docs/guide_schedule
https://winscp.net/eng/docs/guide_automation

I have read the documentation. It simply is not clear enough.

Anonymous wrote:

I have read the documentation. It simply is not clear enough.

I too found the documentation to be less than helpful. Check out this blog, it got be in the right direction.
https://eduboris.blogspot.com/2011/08/winscp-synchronize-scripting-example.html

OK, thanks for the pointers. I've had some success with this script:


It copies material from the remote site to the local directory but doesn't delete obsolete local files. Anyone know why not?

Thanks.

Guest2 wrote:

I too found the documentation to be less than helpful. Check out this blog, it got be in the right direction.
https://eduboris.blogspot.com/2011/08/winscp-synchronize-scripting-example.html

What does this post have that you did not find in WinSCP documentation?

It copies material from the remote site to the local directory but doesn't delete obsolete local files. Anyone know why not?

You are missing -delete switch:
https://winscp.net/eng/docs/scriptcommand_synchronize

martin wrote:

It copies material from the remote site to the local directory but doesn't delete obsolete local files. Anyone know why not?

You are missing -delete switch:
https://winscp.net/eng/docs/scriptcommand_synchronize

I'm using version 5.1.7 but when use Can you help me with this? many thanks in advance.

Thanks, got it working now.

Next problem... my ftp server has 24 directories but I only want to synchronize 20 of them. I have read the documentation and once again it is not clear, the section on masks it utterly baffling. In SIMPLE language how do I exlude certain directories?

Thanks.

Floatingshed wrote:

In SIMPLE language how do I exlude certain directories?

What did you try already? So that we can show you what did you wrong?