fits

Fits is a file transfer service written in go.

Why?

I want a simple service to watch a folder and move new files from a A to B.

Examples:

Your NAS only offers you bloaty and payed enterprise apps for backing up files. Set up a cronjob to generate a backup on your server on and use fits to transfer them to your NAS via FTP/SMB.
Your company gets files uploaded to a folder and they need to be moved somewhere for processing. Just set up a fits and let it transfer the new files.
You run a kubernetes cluster and want a service that can run as a pod and move files between FTP/SMB/SSH to FTP/SMB/SSH.
You generate blog posts on your local machine and you want them to automatically be uploaded to your website. Use fits to automatically take files from your system and SSH them to your server.

Usage

When you start fits it will transfer files between your from and to from your config. Make sure to set the paths correctly before running fits. Check the Config section how to edit it.

Go

Build the go binary:

go build .

Run fits:

./fits

Docker

Build docker image:

docker build . -t fits

Run docker image with your from and to folders:

docker run -v $HOME/fits/from:/from -v $HOME/fits/to:/to -v /$HOME/code/fits/config:/config -it fits

If you're using SSH you need specify the mount path for known_hosts to docker:

docker run -v /$HOME/fits/from:/from -v /$HOME/.ssh:/.ssh -v /$HOME/code/fits/config:/config -it fits

Config

To use fits put a from and to destination in your config/config.toml

File system

Supports [from] and [to]

Example File system config.toml

[from]
path = "$HOME/fits/from"

[to]
path = "$HOME/fits/to"

FTP

Supports [from] and [to]

Example ftp config.toml

[from]
path = "ftp://ftp.mydomain.com/to" or "ftp://192.168.1.100/to"
username = "username"
password = "password"

[to]
path = "ftp://ftp.mydomain.com/to" or "ftp://192.168.1.100/to"
username = "username"
password = "password"

SSH

Supports [to]

Note!
SSH will check known_hosts at the running users $HOME-folder. Please add the host you are sending to in ~/.ssh/known_hosts
This can be done with:

ssh-keyscan -H 192.168.1.100 >> ~/.ssh/known_hosts

Example ssh config.toml

[from]
path = "$HOME/fits/from"

[to]
path = "ssh://mydomain.com/to" or "ssh://192.168.1.100/to"
username = "username"
password = "password"

SMB