On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:

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> sitecopy is a good starting point. lftp has functions for this too,
> your guess as to how well they work. Don't waste your time with those
> perl scripts called "mirror".

Thanks for the pointer, Volker. Meanwhile I have installed sitecopy
and run some short tests, including moving and deleting files on the
local machine. sitecopy has dealt with them quickly and accurately.

There are several good reasons to use sitecopy:

- it is compact,
- the man page is very straightforward and gets you started quickly,
- it runs from the command line, and it works fine on old hardware,
- it should be really easy to run it as a cron job (try that with
  Quanta)
- it does exactly what is required for maintaining a small to medium
  size Internet site.

> If you're lucky, you could perhaps persuade the upload functions of
> mozilla composer, or quanta, to do this.

I have tried that some time ago, but with not much luck. I also find
these two a bit unwieldy just for the syncing aspect. Many of my files
are created with The GIMP, and album. Using one of these huge HTML
IDEs seems to be overkill for uploading some files.

> If anyone else has some other/better solutions I'd like to know too.

Sorry, not currently. But sitecopy seems to be all right.
Ah, I forgot to mention, I am uploading to the orcon.net.nz server,
and I have ftp-0.17-120.

Kind regards,

Helmut.

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