Program for uploading to FTP

**irneb** · 12-May-11, 07:44 AM

If you can't find a ftp client which allows this, you could always map a drive letter to a FTP / WebDav server. Then all you need is a BAT file which runs periodically (say every minute) from Task Scheduler, or some form of "backup" copy (in this case I'd rather go with a file Sync / Replcation proggy though). Apparently it is possible to map a drive letter to WebDav servers directly since XP, but if you don't want to be bothered with a difficult setup you could always look at something like this: http://www.webdrive.com/products/web...DAVClient.html

**AndyD** · 12-May-11, 09:20 PM

Okay I had a closer look at the wftpserver site and it appears they're offering a remote location service for uploading your files to and also a client that runs on your local pc. The client doesn't look like it will do what you want out of the box but it looks like you can use a simple script to automate it.

There's a couple of ways you can go about it, firstly you can set the client to to synchronize to a remote server on a timed event basis. This is obviously a balancing act between using unnecessary resources if the time is short and risk missing sync if the event is too infrequent. You can probably also do it at OS level where the backup/sync is triggered by the creation of a new file. I'm not very well up on either system to be honest, I'm not sure if Windoze has the hooks built in for callback on file creation in a predetermined location in order to trigger the ftp client application.

The burning question in my mind is still if the skollies break in or enter the premises the cctv system is triggered to start capturing the camera feed but the pc is vandalised during the recording process. This means the video info most likely won't have been written as a readable file on the HDD, the info will still be in volatile memory or possibly on the drive in an unreadable format whilst still being handled by the capture application. The file for that recording session won't be created and stored until the session is finished so your remote back-up or sync won't happen. How are you going to get around this if the capture app doesn't have a setting to make it save in ten second chunks for example?

**irneb** · 13-May-11, 08:14 AM

Just thinking. If you can have a mapped drive to the FTP folder - can't the camera save its captures direct to that drive? That way you need not fiddle with any timed scripts / creating a "special" program to check a folder for new file creations.

Apparently you don't need to install any special client for this either, it's possible through straigh-forward windows XP/Vista (probably 7 as well): http://cybernetnews.com/cybernotes-m...ve-in-windows/

You can have a script running say once a day to delete any old files on that ftp folder (say more than one day old or so).

**Martinco** · 14-May-11, 08:01 AM

Originally Posted by AndyD

The burning question in my mind is still if the skollies break in or enter the premises the cctv system is triggered to start capturing the camera feed but the pc is vandalised during the recording process. This means the video info most likely won't have been written as a readable file on the HDD, the info will still be in volatile memory or possibly on the drive in an unreadable format whilst still being handled by the capture application. The file for that recording session won't be created and stored until the session is finished so your remote back-up or sync won't happen. How are you going to get around this if the capture app doesn't have a setting to make it save in ten second chunks for example?

Andy,

I think one can set the file size to a specific size and if the size has been reached a new file will be created. The "'just created" file can then be uploaded which eliminates the file still being in limbo while the skollies are looking for the PC.
The program I am using will send a .jpg snapshot file immediately after the snapshot but this is IP.
I am also not 100% in sinc with the CCTV programs, so it will be trial and error.

**AndyD** · 14-May-11, 11:00 AM

I wish you luck, I think it might be a fiddly and time consuming task to get this to work effectively but looking on the bright side, it should keep you outa the pubs for a while :-)

**Chrisjan B** · 23-May-11, 06:39 PM

Martinco - did you manage to solve the problem - this article from Byteboy on Newstime may help, specifically the IP camera with a built in SD card.
http://www.newstime.co.za/column/Dar...yard/103/3463/

**Martinco** · 24-May-11, 09:33 AM

My friend is still battling with his CCTV software to be able to get snapshots, but yes on IP cams it is no problem. I am running that already with great results.