On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 9:12 PM, DB <Freddog_de@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Evening All, > > After many trials & tribulations, I've finally got my laptop running F12 > - got caught by the "yumex kernel upgrade" problem - still can't get ark > to read consistently from my external disc -even after running cpu test > for 2 days & memtest for 80 hours without error & getting a clean bill > of health from palimpsest for the HDD, - so tried rsync & ssh & finally > followed enough "how to"s to copy my /home from F11 to F12. Thanks to > all for the many ideas of how to fix it! > > 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... > > As ever, enormous thanks for any pointers & pushes in a "good" direction! > > Dave > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > lftp* has mirror command built-in. AFAIK, rsync doesn't support ftp. [1] http://lftp.yar.ru/ -- Athmane Madjoudj -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines