Re: backing up remote files

In article <8jgbnr$3vp$1@toye.php.net>, marcray@visto.com ("Marc Ryan Ray") wrote: > I am trying to backup files off of a remote server using=20 > the php_ftp functions. WHat i want to know is there any=20 > way to verify that the files i download did not get corrupt=20 > in anyway. I have heard of checksums and such, but does=20 > php supports something like this? or does anyone have any=20 > ideas on a remote backup solution You could read the file back and compare byte by byte, or get the ftp server to compute md5, crc, or any number of other checksum/signature type data, and compute the same algorithm in PHP to compare... It's possible that FTP servers can, if asked, compute checksums and even possible that PHP, if configured/asked could do that as well... I don't really know either way of this is already happening, but it might be a done deal. -- Richard Lynch | If this was worth $$$ to you, buy a CD US Customer Support Director | from one of the artists listed here: Zend Technologies USA | http://www.L-I-E.com/artists.htm http://www.zend.com | (this has nothing to do with Zend, duh!)