Arthur Pemberton wrote:
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"?
rsync can use shells eg ssh. But I don't think you could use ftp as the
"shell" ?
> 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.
There is a later ftp server/client standard that includes modified times
and sizes being available within the protocol. Not every server supports
it, nor every client, but this seems like it would be an efficient way
to achieve it. Some software (w32) I use compares these before
downloading from the master ftp server. I do not know what linux
servers/clients support this enh protocol.
DaveT
