This article provides instructions for configuring the Command-Line FTP client to work with Egnyte. For background information about uploading files using FTP and access to other FTP configuration guides, please see FTP Overview and FTP-Settings articles.
For transferring more than 50GB of data, consider using Egnyte's Migration App or some other third-party tool designed to handle larger data migrations.
Exclusions: Refer to this article for unsupported characters and excluded file types that will not be synced.
FTP / FTPES
SFTP
FTP / FTPES
LINUX / POSIX
cURL can be easily used to transfer files using FTP protocol and with SSL.
Syntax
curl -k -T <file> --ftp-ssl --ftp-pasv -u "<username>\mce_marker<domain-name>:<egnyte-password>" ftp://ftp-<egnyte-domain>.egnyte.com/
- Replace <username> with the actual Egnyte username.
- Replace <domain-name> with the actual Egnyte domain name.
- Replace <password> with the actual Egnyte password.
Here are some examples where the username is John and the domain is Acme:
Create a folder named testdirectory under the Shared folder
curl -k -Q "MKD /Shared/testdirectory" --ftp-ssl --ftp-pasv -u "john\$acme:password" ftp://ftp-acme.egnyte.com/
Uploading a file to a folder
curl -k -T testfile.txt --ftp-ssl --ftp-pasv -u "john\$acme:password" ftp://ftp-acme.egnyte.com/Shared/testdirectory/
Download a file
curl -k --ftp-ssl --ftp-pasv -u "john$acme:password" ftp://ftp-acme.egnyte.com/Shared/Documents/testfile.txt
Users can also FTP files into a folder using a script
Here is a simple curl script :
curl --user <username>@<domain-name>:<password> -T <Local File Path> ftp://ftp-<domain_name>.egnyte.com/<Egnyte-file-path>
Example:
curl --user john@acme:password -T /home/John/somefile.txt ftp://ftp-acme.egnyte.com/Shared/mybackup/somefile.txt
Note: The folder /Shared/mybackup should already exist in Egnyte.
Users can carefully script each basic operation needed. For a simple operation of backing up log files, they can run a script once each day that creates a folder representing that day (date-time) and upload log files to that folder on FTP and over SSL.
Users can also avoid including the plain text password in the curl command:
curl -k -T testfile.txt --ftp-ssl --ftp-pasv -u "john$acme" ftp://ftp-acme.egnyte.com/Shared/testdirectory/
The user will be prompted for a password before starting the transfer.
SFTP
We recommend using the standard Linux sshpass command-line utility for scripting. Ensure proper access to the local file containing the password. For instance, if the SSH password is stored in ~/.ssh/secret, the following command can be used to connect to Egnyte SFTP:
sshpass -f ~/.ssh/secret sftp '<username>$<domain-name>'@ftp-<domain-name>.egnyte.com
- Replace <domain-name> with the actual Egnyte domain name
- Replace <username> with the actual Egnyte username.
Ex:
$ sshpass -f ~/.ssh/secret sftp 'bob$acme'@ftp-acme.egnyte.com
Connected to ftp-acme.egnyte.com.
sftp>
Alternatively, the command below can be used to manually access Egnyte via SFTP.
sftp 'bob$acme'@ftp-acme.egnyte.com
The user will be prompted to input their password manually.