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Upgrading from v6 to v7 (when everything else fails)

Syncplify Server! Installation

More than 99.7% of v6 to v7 upgrades complete successfully without requiring any troubleshooting....

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Breaking Changes: AFT! v3 to v4

Syncplify AFT! Operation

This document lists every change in AFT! v4 that requires a script or configuration to be updated...

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Locked yourself out of AFT!'s web UI? Don't panic.

Syncplify AFT! Operation

If you have lost access to AFT! because all admin passwords are forgotten, or because a misconfig...

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Calling the AFT! REST API directly to trigger a job

Syncplify AFT! Operation

If you need to trigger an AFT! job from a script or tool that cannot run the aft start command, y...

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How to trigger AFT! jobs from the command line

Syncplify AFT! Operation

AFT! provides two commands for running scripts from a shell or a CI/CD pipeline. Command ...

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Sending a Slack summary after a batch file transfer

Syncplify AFT! Scripting

Per-file notifications are noisy. A job that uploads fifty files and sends fifty Slack messages t...

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Integrating AFT! with an external workflow API

Syncplify AFT! Scripting

Many serious file transfer operations are parts of larger business workflows. A data pipeline mig...

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Transforming a CSV file in transit between two systems

Syncplify AFT! Scripting

Sometimes the gap between two systems that need to exchange data is entirely a formatting problem...

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A simple "health monitor" script

Syncplify AFT! Scripting

One of the new functions available in SyncJS as of AFT! v4.0.0 (and higher) is TcpConnect, which ...

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[OLD] Monitoring a local folder and uploading files to your SFTP server when they change

Syncplify AFT! Scripting

This article refers to all AFT! versions prior to v4.0.0. If you're looking to achieve the same t...

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Relaying files from S3 to an SFTP server without local staging

Syncplify AFT! Scripting

A common integration pattern is moving files from a cloud object storage bucket (S3 or any S3-com...

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Automatically removing old files from a remote archive

Syncplify AFT! Scripting

Without a cleanup policy, a remote archive grows indefinitely. Storage costs accumulate quietly, ...

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Automatically encrypting files before uploading them to a remote server

Syncplify AFT! Scripting

When you deliver files to a third-party SFTP server you cannot always trust that the storage on t...

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Getting alerted when a remote file has not been updated recently enough

Syncplify AFT! Scripting

Upstream systems fail silently all the time. An ETL job crashes, a partner's export process hangs...

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Monitoring a remote VFS and downloading files to your local disk when they change

Syncplify AFT! Scripting

This article shows how to monitor a remote directory and automatically download each new file the...

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Monitoring a local folder and uploading files to your SFTP server when they change

Syncplify AFT! Scripting

This article refers to AFT! v4.0.0+, if you're still on an older AFT! version, please, refer to t...

Updated 5 days ago by DevTeam

Understanding what Syncplify AFT! is

Syncplify AFT! Operation

True Managed File Transfer (MFT) requires the interoperation of 2 parts: a file transfer serve...

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High-Availability (HA): how to setup

Syncplify Server! Installation

This article assumes you've already read, understood, and are familiar with the general concepts ...

Updated 2 weeks ago by DevTeam

High-Availability (HA) general concepts

Syncplify Server! Installation

The most important improvement brought about by Syncplify Server! version is the simplicity with ...

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Upgrading from v4/v5 to v7

Syncplify Server! Installation

Upgrading from an old Syncplify.me Server! v4 or v5 to Syncplify Server! v7 is a process that req...

Updated 3 weeks ago by DevTeam