[ZendTo] Re: Auto-deletion of files

Mon Mar 23 15:58:35 GMT 2015

Ha ha, well it is comforting to know you're watching your own mailing list
at least Jules :-)

Thanks, I'll let you know how we get on with the trial.

Cheers

On 23 March 2015 at 14:47, Jules <Jules at zend.to> wrote:

>
>
> On 23/03/2015 14:35, Greg Mills wrote:
>
> Hi Grey and Jules,
>
>  Thanks for the feedback. It's always good to hear from people who have
> used the product for a while.
>
> You could say I've used it for a while :-)
>
>  I think the dropoff lifetime setting could work for us. As long as data
> is not left on the server for an unreasonable length of time, I'll be happy.
>
> Most people set the life time to 2-4 weeks.
>
>  Our current FTP server had data from 2010 just sitting there because no
> one has been managing it.
>
> One of the great advantages of ZendTo is that you don't need to do
> anything to it, it self-manages. My install of it here (
> dropoff.soton.ac.uk) gets about 800GB per month uploaded to it, and
> requires absolute zero maintenance effort.
>
>
>  Thanks, I'll give it a try.
>
>  Do you find it stable and is help from the developer available at all if
> needed?
>
> Most people find that once it's all setup and running (not hard), it looks
> after itself.
>
>  I notice he's not offering commercial supp[ort contracts at this time.
>
> Sorry, I don't have the energy to do out-of-office-hours support work on
> it, and the University keep me occupied doing other things these days.
>
> Cheers,
> Jules.
>
>
>  Regards
>
> On 23 March 2015 at 14:07, Gray McCord <gdm at sangabriel.com> wrote:
>
>>   I believe there are two mechanisms that can be used by Zendto to
>> delete uploaded files. The one I think you are referring to is where a user
>> manually deletes a dropoff. In my experience, this is very rarely used by
>> my users. The other mechanism is a system-wide auto delete, where the admin
>> can set a lifetime for all dropoffs after which the system deletes them.  I
>> believe the default is 2 weeks, but you can set it to whatever you want in
>> the config file. As far as I know, there is no mechanism built into Zendto
>> to auto-delete right after a dropoff is downloaded, although a little php
>> code could solve that if you need it.
>> I’ve been using Zendto for a couple of years now, and my users love it.
>> No more asking IT to set up an ftp account for a one-off file transfer.
>>
>>  Hope this helps,
>>
>>  Gray
>>
>>
>>  Gray McCord
>>
>> *Adapt, Mutate, Migrate, or Die*
>>
>>                                                           -C. Darwin
>>
>>  From: Greg Mills
>> Reply-To: ZendTo Users
>> Date: Monday, March 23, 2015 at 7:57 AM
>> To: <zendto at zend.to>
>> Subject: [ZendTo] Auto-deletion of files
>>
>>  Hi all, I'm looking for a simple file transfer solution for our
>> business. I would like something that allows staff to send files without
>> my involvement, to anyone they have an email address for, and have the file
>> auto-delete after the recipient has downloaded it.
>>
>>  Zendto looks as though it would do this, apart from the auto-delete. Is
>> there a preference to remove the user's control over file deletion?
>>
>>  Thanks
>>
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