Overview

The cost and impact of system downtime is rapidly rising. This is primarily due to businesses' increasing dependence on data and technology. In the past, if a server went down, people simply reverted to manual methods. Or, because transactions weren't as fast and voluminous back then, they simply waited until the service would go back up again. Could you imagine dealing with network downtime now? Many large enterprises can't. Here are 5 reasons explaining the impact of system downtime.

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Topics: JSCAPE MFT

Overview

FTP automation is usually achieved by employing scripts or batch files. There's an easier way to do it.

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Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Business Process Automation, Triggers, FTP

Overview

Scheduled file transfers can help you make more efficient use of time, computing resources, and bandwidth. If you want to know how to set one up, check out this post.

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Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Business Process Automation, Triggers

SFTP vs. SCP Overview

Both SCP and SFTP run over TCP port 22 by default. Both are also used for transferring files. So are they one and the same? If not, what's the difference between the two? In this post, we compare them in terms of qualities essential to file transfers: speed, security, functionality, support for large files, and support for resuming transfers. Let's see which protocol has the advantage.

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Topics: Secure File Transfer, SFTP, file transfer, SCP

Overview

Your ability to send and receive emails is largely due to 3 TCP protocols: SMTP, IMAP, and POP3. If you've got a couple of minutes to spare, now's a good time to know what they are and how they differ from one another.

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Topics: Secure File Transfer, FTP

Overview

Several months ago, we published a tutorial crafted to help network/server administrators prepare trading partners for SFTP automation. That article lacked one important feature found in SFTP - public key authentication. So today, we've devoted one full tutorial that focuses on that.

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Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Business Process Automation, Tutorials, Secure File Transfer, SFTP

While using SFTP on the command line, there might be instances when you'll want to upload or download an entire directory and all the the files and subdirectories underneath it. To accomplish that, you'll need the recursive argument -r.

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Topics: SFTP

Overview: File Transfer Protocols for Businesses

Still wondering which file transfer protocol is right for your business? Here are a dozen you can choose from. Below this list, we've also added brief descriptions of these data transfer types to make your choice easier.

1. FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
2. HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
3. FTPS (FTP over SSL)
4. HTTPS (HTTP over SSL)
5. SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol)
6. SCP (Secure Copy)
7. WebDAV (Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning)
8. WebDAVS
9. TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol)
10. AS2 (Applicability Statement 2)
11. OFTP (Odette File Transfer Protocol)
12. AFTP (Accelerated File Transfer Protocol)

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Topics: Secure File Transfer, SFTP, FTPS, Accelerated File Transfer, transfer protocols

Most of these file transfer protocols should already be running on your network. Can you identify their respective default port numbers?

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Topics: SFTP, FTPS, AS2, FTP

Overview

SCP (Secure Copy) is a quick, easy way to transfer files securely between two Linux machines. If you don't mind using the command line and all you want is a simple way to upload or download files on Linux, this series of SCP examples should be all you'll need to learn how to do it.

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Topics: Tutorials, Secure File Transfer, SFTP