On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 06:16:57PM +1000, Trevor Nuridin wrote: > I have been using your great program lftp, and I was wondering how lftp does > its mirroring ? I've always assumed that it required the ftp server to > support MDTM, but I just noticed in the NEWS file that Glenn Maynard says > that he fixed lftp to work with servers that don't support MDTM, so I'd love > to know how it does it.
It looks at file modification time which is included in file listing. It is not precise (no seconds and in no day time if the file is old), that is why lftp tries to use MDTM to get precise time. > I am trying to mirror to a site without MDTM, and it doesn't seem to work > properly, its uploading many files that have not changed. I am using 2.6.6 Please send ls output for local and remote files which are re-uploaded. -- Alexander.
