How to do FXP or Site-Local-Site Transfer in CrossFTP to Easily Move Data across Remote Servers

This article presents how to solve the data copy/move issue across different remote server sites with same or different FTP/cloud protocols.

How to Copy/Move Data Across Different Sites

Lots of data transfer protocols are available from different cloud storage sites. For example, CrossFTP supports FTP, SFTP, FXP, WebDav, Amazon S3, Amazon Glacier, Google Cloud Storage, MS AZure, and OpenStack Swift protocols for Windows, Mac, and Linux. How to copy/move data between different sites easily is an issue.

To address this issue, CrossFTP provides FXP and/or Site-Local-Site solutions:

• FXP: a method of data transfer among sites of same transfer protocols. Currently supported transfer protocols are: FTP, SFTP, WebDav, Amazon S3, MS AZure, and OpenStack Swift. This feature is available in CrossFTP Pro.
• Site-Local-Site: a method of data transfer among sites of any (same/different) transfer protocols. The data file is downloaded from the source site to the local machine first, and then upload from local machine to the target site. This feature helps you to do data migration between different sites, and is available in CrossFTP Enterprise.

Here we introduce how to make FXP and Site-Local-Site transfer in CrossFTP below:

FXP

1. Open the remote site's tab on left and right side of CrossFTP Panel, and copy them among the tabs. See Fig.

2. Choose FXP type data transfer.
3. Data transfer items will be added into the queue, as shown in the Fig.

Site-Local-Site

1. Open the remote site's tab on left and right side of CrossFTP Panel, and copy them among the tabs. See Fig.

  

2.  Choose Site-Local-Site type data transfer.
3.  Data transfer items will be added into the queue, as shown in the Fig.

  

Trouble Shooting

• Site-Local-Site transfer met that temp file creation failure, or there is no enough disk space

  This is caused by that there is no enough space left on your chosen temp file folder, so that the local cached file cannot be created and leading to the site-local-site transfer failure. To address this, choose a proper temp folder at Tools -> Global Options -> General -> Temp File Folder, and make sure there is enough space left for that folder.

Conclusion

CrossFTP provides FXP and/or Site-Local-Site type data transfer support to help you to handle data copy/move issue across different remote server sites with same or different FTP/cloud protocols