Monitoring a Local Folder for Changes Using the Folder Monitor Wizard

Deva xFTP allows you to upload any new or modified files or folders added to a specific local folder automatically. The Folder Monitor wizard guides you through the steps required for activating the folder monitoring function.

To upload changes to a local folder automatically

  1. Connect to the site that contains the folder to which you want to upload the changed or new files.

  2. On the main menu, click Tools > Folder Tools > Monitor Local Folders. The Folder Monitor Wizard appears.

  1. Specify the local path to the folder you want to monitor.

  2. In the Upload to the following remote path box, provide the remote path to where you want to upload the files in the monitored folder.

  3. To monitor all subdirectories within the target folder, select the Include subfolders check box.

  4. Click Next.

  1. Specify the date and the time after which all the files created or modified in the folder are uploaded to the server.

  2. To overwrite any file with the same name on the server, select the Always overwrite check box.

  1. To monitor certain files or file types in a folder, select the Apply monitor filters check box.

  1. To apply filtering to the particular folders, select the Apply filtering to folder names check box. (The filters should be predefined. Refer to Filtering Transfers for details.)

  1. If you want two files with the same name but different case to be treated as two separate files, select the Use case sensitive filtering check box.

  2. Click Next.

  3. To specify which files to include or exclude in the transfer:

  1. Click Next.

  1. To use system functions to determine the changes when a file is modified, select the Attempt to auto-detect changes in monitored folder check box. If the check box is cleared, Deva xFTO cycles through the folder at the rate defined by Monitor folder every n seconds and looks for changes to the modified time-stamp.

  2. Click Next.

  3. Click Finish.


Items deleted from the local folder are not deleted from the remote folder. To discontinue a scheduled backup task, select the task in the Queue window, then on the main menu, click Tools, point to Queue, then click Remove Selected.