NiFi for file movement

[#1]

Hi

I'm new to NiFi and exploring my options.

We are planning to use NiFi as a File Movement platform, where we will be transferring thousands of files everyday of sizes ranging upto 50GB without any extraction, transformation or loading. 

We just need to pull the file from one location and push to another location using SFTP and/or S3.

Is NiFi a right tool to use to do this activity ?

Thanks

[#2 · Accepted solution]

@nifier 

Apache NiFi can consume data from many different sources including SFTP and S3 using these processors:

• ListSFTP + FetchSFTP
• ListS3 + FetchS3Object
• PutSFTP
• PutS3Object

In between those processor you can do many things with that data if you ever choose to do set dynamic attribute for unique destination paths/directories, enhance the data, transform, etc.

Keep in mind that NiFi does not consume and send in a single thread.  NiFi must consume the content into its own repositories and then read it from there when writing to the destination.   Your described size and volume is not an issue.  Your bottle neck if any will be with network and disk I/O depending on your hardware.

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Thank you,
Matt

[#3]

@MattWho Thanks for your reply 👍