On 6/8/06, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Arthur Pemberton wrote: > On 6/8/06, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Arthur Pemberton wrote: >> > Can anyone suggest how I would go about downloading an entire FTP tree >> > (the easy part) then basically making diffs of it every day? >> > >> > I can do the scripting, just not sure what tools are out there, or >> > what search terms to use. >> >> Why don't you just use "rsync"? >> > > Wasn't aware that rsync supported FTP, will have to checkup on that. I didn't say it supported FTP.... It is a transfer mechanism on to itself. But, it does what I think you are asking. It will only transfer the bits that have changed.
Well thanks, but the data to be transfered is only accessible to me via ftp....sadly. -- To be updated...
