Perl

Synchronize Local Directory Tree

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Downloads files from the FTP server to a local directory tree. Synchronization modes include:

mode=0: Download all files
mode=1: Download all files that do not exist on the local filesystem.
mode=2: Download newer or non-existant files.
mode=3: Download only newer files. If a file does not already exist on the local filesystem, it is not downloaded from the server..
mode=5: Download only missing files or files with size differences.
mode=6: Same as mode 5, but also download newer files.
mode=99: Do not download files, but instead delete remote files that do not exist locally. Chilkat2 Perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

# This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
# See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

my $ftp = Chilkat2::Ftp2->new;

$ftp->Hostname('ftp.example.com');
$ftp->Username('login');
$ftp->Password('password');

$ftp->KeepSessionLog(1);

# Connect and login to the FTP server.
my $success = $ftp->Connect();
if (!$success) {
    print $ftp->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

# Set the current remote directory to the root of
# the tree to be downloaded.
$success = $ftp->ChangeRemoteDir('/subDir1');
if (!$success) {
    print $ftp->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

# Recursively download all non-existant and newer files.
my $mode = 2;
$success = $ftp->SyncLocalTree('c:/temp/subDir1', $mode);
if (!$success) {
    print $ftp->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

$success = $ftp->Disconnect();

# Display the session log.
print $ftp->SessionLog, "\n";