Description

You can use the SFTP job entry to get one or more files from an FTP server using the Secure FTP protocol.

Options

Option	Description
Job entry name	The name of the job entry. This name has to be unique in a single job. A job entry can be placed several times on the canvas, however it will be the same job entry.
SFTP-server name / IP	The name of the SFTP server or the IP address
Port	The TCP port to use. This is usually 22
User name	The user name to log into the SFTP server
Password	The password to log into the SFTP server
Remote directory	The remote directory on the SFTP server from which we get the files
Target directory	The directory on the machine on which Kettle runs in which you want to place the transferred files
Wildcard	Specify a regular expression here if you want to select multiple files. For example: .txt$ : get all text files A.[ENG:0-9].txt : files tarting with A ending with a number and .txt
Remove files after retrieval?	Remove the files after they have been successfully transferred.