Re: How to COPY (not transfer) a file on a remote server using FTP

On 08-Dec-2011 13:33 , Dan wrote:

<<SNIP>> 550 The process cannot access the file because it is being
used by another process.
<<SNIP>> The application that updates the text file is done by 11pm.
I can GET all log files except the one created most recently. This
tells me that the process that updates the text file still has it
locked, even 12 hours later. PLEASE NOTE: I have no control over the
application on the server that is locking the file. So, I am looking
for a workaround.

So the application [on the server] that updates the file is not always done by 11pm.?

<<SNIP>>
So, I *think* my workaround solution is to change the FTP script to
first copy the file on the server to a new file. I have attempted
using QUOTE and SITE with various parameters to issue the command:
xcopy process.20111207210003.448.txt DanTemp.txt
but I'm getting nothing but errors (500 "command not understood")

To determine what the server will accept, review output from the request to: QUOTE HELP

For more specific help about any promising token the server suggests will be accepted, e.g. if DOSTUFF were returned from the prior request to QUOTE HELP, then additionally review the output from the additional request to: QUOTE HELP DOSTUFF

Any ideas?

My perception is... The wrong question [i.e. the subject] is being asked. If the file is not ready, then even if the application were updated to make a copy of the file after its updates were complete, then the file to be retrieved [by GET] would still not be ready.? Is not the real question to be asked, "What happens when the data is not available from the server?" Is there any significant difference between "unavailable due to locking" versus "unavailable due to not existing", as far as the GET requester is concerned? Seems to me that unavailable=unavailable when the requester has "no control over the application on the server", such that the requester has little option but to wait, possibly additionally sending notification to someone to investigate why the waiting is required [since the job was expected to have made the file available already\by:11pm]?

Regards, Chuck