Can anyone recommend a good site synchronize/upload tool?

[franklin dematto]

Can anyone recommend a good site synchronize/upload tool for Windows, using FTP (or even better, SFTP)?

I use DreamWeaver but it is not powerful enough. Things that I'm looking for is a powerful exclude list of files (either by list, directory, or extension), a log of files that were updated, stripping of (annoying) Windows CRLF's, and one-click bring-site-up-to-date-according-to-my-settings.

An added plus, which I don't think I'll get, is a feature to run a perl script on every file that needs to be updated - to do some basic postprocessing. But I can do this by hand if it gives me a log of all files that were updated.

[Woz]

Netload does most of what you want, except the Perl stuff. Synchronizes the online version with the offline version, exclude folders, etc. Yet to figure out how to exclude the MS stuff regardless of position in the tree b ut there must be a way.

No affiliation!

Onya
Woz

[bcc1234]

You can use make with curl. That's about as flexible as it can possibly get.

[mat]

Can't recommend Site Publisher from Helexis strongly enough. We used to use Netload - great tool - but its big weakness was the fact that any include/exclude lists were global - one definition for all sites, stored in the registry.

Not so with Site Publisher. Plus, its faster (multi-threaded), doesn't choke as often as Netload did on large sites, and is all-round more able to be customised.

Mat

[mgream]

rsync (http://www.rsync.org/) if your host supports it.
otherwise, try sitecopy (http://www.lyra.org/sitecopy/).
personally I have been using my own perl scripts.

[franklin dematto]

using make with curl, now that's an original idea!

5 out of 5 on the hackish scale

[bcc1234]

5 out of 5 on the hackish scale

LOL, I'll take it as a compliment.
In reality, I used make and cvs to keep and maintain some sites :) Worked out pretty good. So if I needed to also synchronize them - curl would be the way to go.