On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 21:12 +0100, DB wrote: > Now.... seeing how brilliant rsync is at updating my /home on the 2 > machines, I thought it'd be a Good Idea to try and use it to keep a > website I look after, up to date. Problem is - how do I specify the > "receiver" address, when I only have an ftp access to the distant > system > (& I guess my chances of installing rsync on a provider's system is > about as good as......) All the notes I read on the 'net seem to > work > with ip addresses, which I don't know how to find for my target... This makes no sense if the remote system isn't running rsync as well, either via the rsync: protocol prefix, or by executing an rsync process on an ssh login. You can't rsync to an ftp daemon. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines