-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Alan Gauld wrote: > "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!! > Going off of wha tyou said, if I choose to use ftp, is there a way i could do everything from within python including the server to get the files? Is there like a ftp module for python to help in the passing of the files between the computers?
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