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VBScript for compressing files in a folder and send on FTP

This is a simple vbscript compression script. works flawlessly on text files even bigger than 15GB. We have a SSIS data generation package installed on our DB server which generates huge data files for data mining operations for current year, current month. The below scripts are doing the rest; compress the files and FTP to the data mining server location.   '====================================================== ' Function : Zip datamart CSV, CTL files to local server for archive purposes. '====================================================== Function WindowsZip(sFile, sZipFile, szPath, szDate)   Set oZipShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")    Set oZipFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")   Set LogFile = oZipFSO.CreateTextFile(szPath & "\Logs\log_" & szDate & ".log", true)   LogFile.WriteLine("=======================================")   LogFile.WriteLine(Now & " - Com