What is the fastest way to upload files to Akamai?

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James picture James · Aug 12, 2010 · Viewed 9.7k times · Source

I have an ftp directory with Akamai now and I need to upload images as fast as possible (possibly 1+ million per day)

What would be the fastest way to sync local files to an ftp site?

thanks

Answer

Matt picture Matt · Feb 15, 2011

Instead of FTP, use Rsync. It has lower overhead than FTP and is well suited to synchronising a large filebase.

Rsync documentation

Akamai Netstorage supports Rsync as an upload method. It may need to be enabled in the Akamai control panel - whoever administers your Netstorage user accounts can enable it.

Rsync is included in all Linux distributions, if you are on Windows you can get it as part of cygwin.

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