non expected error: FTP Listing Truncated

[webrod]

Hi,

it looks like this error comes when there are more than X files in a folder.
X being the limit set on the server side for FTP client.

In my case X is 10 000 while I have 40 000 pictures.

Any means to workaround that?

I thought I could use:
Mask&filters -> File Age and Size -> File Age less than 1 days

I set this for testing purpose, I have created only 2 pictures this last day, but I still get the error.

I thought the software would do a search taking into account the date, so the server should return only those 2 files.
This should work.

What did I do wrong?

info:
+ I am testing the latest version 5.61
+ I am doing a standard copy from FTP server to my local hard disk
+ I want to copy only the updated files
+ the workaround with the "file age" would be OK if it would work. I would configure the backup to run on a weekly basis, and would set "file age less than 7 days"
+ my server is linux
+ my PC is windows Seven

thanks for your help
Rod

[webrod]

it's strange I tested another things.
Masks & Filters -> Inlcusion Masks -> c*

So it should retreive only files starting with letter "c", so only around 10 files, but I have the same error message.

Are you getting all the files, then you manually apply the search??

This would be so strange

thanks
rod

[superflexible]

Yes, the program always gets a complete listing of all files. The reason is to speed up processing when there are many inclusion masks.

You need to reconfigure your server to allow more than 10,000 files.

For example, for pure-ftpd I found this on the Internet on how to configure it.

Find the pure-ftpd.conf file on your server and change the following setting to how many files are required to be displayed.

LimitRecursion 10000 8

Here, 10000 is your limit per folder and 8 is the recursion depth limit. Both should be increased a lot.

The pure-ftpd.conf file may be located under:

/etc/pure-ftpd.conf
/usr/local/etc/pure-ftpd.conf

After you have made the necessary changes, restart the FTP service.

[webrod]

I did ask the provider to update this setting.
Now it's working.

on the other hand, sometimes a provider will say "no".

So it would be nice to have an option to do another way, like getting only relevant files.

Thanks
Rod