How can I speed up transfers?

Jcaspari · Post by **Jcaspari** » Mon Jun 17, 2013 2:22 pm

We are transferring a directory which has about 5,000 folders and several files within each folder.

CoreFTP takes about 1 hour to transfer the entire directory but we need to speed up this process, without sacrificing reliability.

Would compression help?

Are there any tweaks in the advanced settings that might help?

Thanks very much!

Jeff and Lana

Post by **ForumAdmin** » Mon Jun 17, 2013 7:09 pm

Regular FTP/SSL can use Advanced -> Transfers -> Mode Z, if the server supports it.

For SSH/SFTP use the pipelining option in Advanced -> SSH.

Compressing files before transfers can also help. You can use the Core FTP internal zip compression (uploading only) by right clicking on files -> Compression, or call a command line compression utility externally from Advanced -> External

Jcaspari · Post by **Jcaspari** » Tue Jun 18, 2013 1:45 pm

Thank you. We will try that.

Is there is way to gauge the progress of our efforts?

Something like a thoughput monitor that can say how many bytes were transferred in [x] period?

Jeff

Post by **ForumAdmin** » Wed Jun 19, 2013 7:22 pm

The transfer rate in the GUI shows the throughput.

You can also check the log for the time it took for the transfer (at the end of each transfer it shows how long it took)