Hi,
I have a big problem... I've written a script that uses gzip to compress log files then transfers them every night using Net::FTP to another machine. The script is running on a UNIX server and putting the files on a windows server. These log files are quite large, we are talking about 10megs compressed per day. The script runs every night and just transfers the previous days files for a series of virtual hosts.

Anyway, my problem is that the logs seem to becoming corrupted somewhere and once they are on the destination server I cannot uncompress them. When using WinZip I get the message 'Invalid Compressed Data -- unable to inflate.'

My first thought was that I needed to transfer the files in binary mode and maybe the default was ascii mode FTP, can anyone confirm this? I tried changing the mode type using $ftp->quot("bin") or die "Failed to change to binary type:$!"; because I could not find any other way of changing file transfer type. Can anyone tell me the proper way of doing this?

All comments and ideas very welcome, I need to get this sorted ASAP because we have clients screaming for their web stats....

Cheers!
Tom

In reply to Net::FTP Corrupting zip files by CodeJunkie

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