Integrating pre and post transfer commands into transfer using FASTCopy

Question:

I need to integrate FASTCopy into my production environment. How can I execute scripts / batch files on the local and remote systems prior to and after a file transfer?

Answer:

The following example will illustrate how to use pre/ post command execution.

You must ensure that the user issuing the command (or the -controller_user if the command is being issued through -batch mode) has execute permissions on the local commands and that the remote user (as specified with the -user qualifier) has execute permissions on the remote node.

Example of the usage of local and remote pre and post transfer commands:
fcopy E:\temp\*.* \\localhost\E:\temp\*.* -user=administrator -password=SOMEPASS -replace -report=detailed -local_pre_command=E:\batch\local_pre_command.bat -local_pre_param=\"param1 param2\" -local_pre_log_file=E:\logs\local_pre_log.txt -local_command=E:\batch\local_post_command.bat -local_param=\"param1 param2\" -local_log_file=E:\logs\local_post_log.txt -remote_pre_command=E:\batch\remote_pre_command.bat -remote_pre_param=\"param1 param2\" -remote_pre_log_file=E:\logs\remote_pre_log.txt -remote_command=E:\batch\remote_post_command.bat -remote_param=\"param1 param2\" -remote_log_file=E:\logs\remote_post_log.txt

You may also pass the following variables to all "parameter" qualifiers:

%s
Source file name of the last file that was transferred.

%t
Target file name of the last file that was transferred.

%f
Last file that was transferred - with local param, this is translated to the local file name.

%1
Converts the succeeding filename to the of the system on which the local_command or remote_command is executed, rather than being translated on the local machine. This is a very useful modifier during cross-platform operations.

For example:

fcopy E:\temp\a.a \\localhost\E:\temp\b.b -user=administrator -password=SOMEPASS -replace -report=detailed -local_pre_command=E:\batch\local_pre_command.bat -local_pre_param=\"%s %t\"

The batch file echos the following:

echo "E:\temp\a.a and E:\temp\b.b were passed as parameters" 1>E:\batch\local_post_command.txt




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