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

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On 01/26/2010 06:32 PM, Athmane Madjoudj wrote:
> 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/
>
>    
Thank you!  I'll give it a try.

Dave
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