Re: Any way to delete (synchronize)? (fwd)

2001-01-21 Thread L. Cranswick
> > > Whoa, wait a minute. Doesn't this assume the user has control over > > > both master and slave site? Of course that is wrong for many of us. > > > > Many sites that run anonymous FTP allow anonymous rsync access as > > well. But in principle you are right - a site that offers FTP access

Re: Any way to delete (synchronize)? (fwd)

2001-01-21 Thread Harry Putnam
Jan Prikryl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Many sites that run anonymous FTP allow anonymous rsync access as > well. But in principle you are right - a site that offers FTP access > doees not have to be necesarilly accessible via rsync. > > > I would think the full mirroring capability would be a

Re: Any way to delete (synchronize)? (fwd)

2001-01-21 Thread Harry Putnam
Jan Prikryl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Whoa, wait a minute. Doesn't this assume the user has control over > > both master and slave site? Of course that is wrong for many of us. > > Many sites that run anonymous FTP allow anonymous rsync access as > well. But in principle you are right -

Re: Any way to delete (synchronize)? (fwd)

2001-01-21 Thread Jan Prikryl
Quoting Harry Putnam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Given there is a well-working implementation of rsync server and rsync > > client, does it make sense to add this functionality to wget? > > Whoa, wait a minute. Doesn't this assume the user has control over > both master and slave site? Of course

Re: Any way to delete (synchronize)? (fwd)

2001-01-20 Thread Harry Putnam
Jan Prikryl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Quoting L. Cranswick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > For this type of mirroring - you may also like to explore using > > rsync (free open source) [...] > > > > This can be far more effective than using FTP or HTTP mirroring. > > The algorithm is open source s

Re: Any way to delete (synchronize)? (fwd)

2001-01-18 Thread L. Cranswick
> Quoting L. Cranswick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > For this type of mirroring - you may also like to explore using > > rsync (free open source) [...] > > > > This can be far more effective than using FTP or HTTP mirroring. > > The algorithm is open source so there is no reason why it cannot be >

Re: Any way to delete (synchronize)? (fwd)

2001-01-18 Thread Jan Prikryl
Quoting L. Cranswick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > For this type of mirroring - you may also like to explore using > rsync (free open source) [...] > > This can be far more effective than using FTP or HTTP mirroring. > The algorithm is open source so there is no reason why it cannot be > added into WGET

Any way to delete (synchronize)? (fwd)

2001-01-18 Thread L. Cranswick
> > I am using wget 1.5.3 to mirror two sites. I would like the slave site to be an > exact copy of the source site. Since the source site is actively updated by > both changing and deleting files, I need a way to tell wget to delete files from > the slave site when the same file has disappeared