On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 11:55:05PM +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> > know if there is a tool which can sync between my current CVS module and 
> > the ftp server which is on the web.
> > 
> > (similar to the ws-ftp sync-er)
> 
> rsync beats the hell out of ftp.

Very true. Unison also beats the hell out of rsync :-)
(Well, I would say that, I used to be addicted to Unison but I've not
touched it for about a year now ...)

Unison is a bi-directional use of rsync, so you can make updates at
either end and have them propogate correctly. Similar in some ways to
the effect that CVS can have ...

-jim

> 
> If you must use ftp, the only usable syncer I could find is sitecopy.
> There are some perl scripts called mirror, but I could never get them
> to behave in a useful way. Be warned that ftp syncing is an absolute
> PITA and, depending on the particular run of ftp server you get, very
> unreliable. There is no guarantee you'll be able to get the info as to
> what is currently stored (in terms of files) on the server, ftp just
> doesn't allow this. sitecopy gets around this by keeping track of what
> is has copied before, so doesn't need to query what's on the server. Of
> course, if it ever gets out of sync, ...
> 
> Use rsync if you possibly can. You will be saving yourself a lot of
> trouble.
> 
> Volker
> 
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