of course the original poster (whoever that was) may not have shell access to the ftp server, and may not be able to run rsync/unison there.
This is true. No shell access (only ftp)
tim
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 22:32:04 +0100 Jim Cheetham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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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