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

[Marc Doumayrou]

 Hi,
 lftp (http://lftp.yar.ru/) allows you to do this with it's 
 mirror/reverse mirror feature.
 It can also deal with the removal of remote or local files, and has a 
 ton of options for the mirror feature.

 Marc

 On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 11:42:17 +0000, Gavin McCullagh wrote:
> 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