"Nathan McBride" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote Hi Nathan,
Please don't reply to an existing message to start a new discussion. It messes up those of us using threaded mail/news readers and increases the likelihood that your message will be missed. > I'm pretty tired of the lame backup solution we have at work. > Could anyone point me to a (more or less newbieish) example of how > to > have python open a socket on one box and get data from it, then have > another > box write to it over the network? For a very simple example of using a socket you could try the Network Programming topic in my tutorial. There is also a HowTo or Topic guide on the Python web site that gives a more detailed example. That having been said, backups are usually best done using OS tools or if you must roll your own then using ftp or similar as a file transfer mechanism rather than trying to send a bytestream over a socket. ftp can handle broken connections etc more easily. Detecting and fixing errors over a socket stream is non trivial and for backups is pretty much essential!! -- Alan Gauld Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
