Re: Anyone know how to rsync or ssh to an ftp site? (Follow on to Tar Oddity)

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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
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lftp* has mirror command built-in.

AFAIK, rsync doesn't support ftp.

[1] http://lftp.yar.ru/

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