Alexei@Nitobi

Today we quietly open sourced Nitobi FTP Sync, a COM based file synchronization tool that more than a few people are using to perform tasks like automated backups. The neat thing about FTP Sync was always that we packaged it as a web tool… perform FTP synchronization from a web app.. neat idea.

We used it ourselves for years in our commercial CMS, which was a fairly elegant solution to the problem of migrating content efficiently between staging and production servers.

We’ve decided that the component would be of more use to people if it shipped with the source code.. we thought about lowering the price and then remembered that we’re an Ajax company and had no business selling ActiveX tools in the first place!

The tool is now under Lesser GPL, and we will be accepting contributions back into the code if someone is so-inclined. Otherwise, just download the package and go nuts.

• Go to the FTP Sync Wiki
• Go straight to the download
• See an integration video
  

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