CLI tool for Syncing over FTP was Re: [ILUG] NFS for server

[Andres Jimenez]

For that purpose, I use ncftp.

I use ncftpls to display the remote server's contents and to send "rm"
commands to delete old backups before sending new ones using ncftpput
.


Cheers,

Andrés
2011/2/8 Gavin McCullagh <gmccullagh at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 07 Feb 2011, Gareth 'bigbro' Eason wrote:
>
>> For backing up files, rsync is far more effective than FTP as it supports
>> checksumming, partial downloads, partial deltas, file attribute and
>> timestamp preservation and a whole lot more.
>
> While we're on the subject, does anyone know of a decent command line tool
> which will allow syncing over FTP, ie sync a local copy with a remote
> directory only over FTP.
>
> It's easy (if a little wasteful) to do a full recursive GET each time.
> However, where a file is deleted off the remote copy, it won't be deleted
> locally.  I guess I could wipe out the local copy (I am downloading the
> whole thing again after all) but this all seems very wasteful.
>
> Is there a better solution (which could be used in a shell script)?  ncftp
> doesn't seem to offer it anyway.  I plan using subversion to version the
> local copy.
>
> Gavin
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