Hi
On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 07:38:47PM +0400, Alexander V. Lukyanov wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 10:04:22PM +0200, Andre Noll wrote:
> > is it possible to use lftp's mirror command with the -R option set
> > (reverse mirror) such that modification time of the files being mirrored
> > is preserved?
>
> No, ftp protocol does not provide means for changing modification time
> on remote files. I heard something about SITE MTIME (nonstandard
> extension), but most ftp servers do not support it.
Hmm, in this case I am rather clueless concerning the following problem:
I'd like to mirror (parts of my) home dir at work on my Linux machine at home.
Since the admin at work doesn't allow ftp access, I have to ssh on my
Linux box at work to invoke lftp from there.
But this requires using mirror -R :(
Is there any other way to achieve what I want? In particular I see two
possibilities:
- Maybe it is possible to use lftp just to find the list of files and then
use scp to transfer them. This would have the advantage that
file transfer is encrypted.
- Perhaps it's possible to install some ftp server at work which doesn't
need root privileges to run (eg. ftp4all, has anybody experience in
that direction?)
Anyway, thanks for your quick response and sorry of being somewhat OT.
Andre
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