mirror is a stand-alone program, it is not part of ncftp. It can use
ncftp as the transfer program if you so choose, but mirror uses
various methods (including date, size, and location) to determine if
the file has changed, and if it has, it will transfer the updated file
for you.
Ncftp can do some amazing things on it's own, but as far as I know,
there is nothing like the mirror command. You need to hunt for mirror.pl
(the perl cpan repository has it, as well as other sites) and set it
up for your particular case. It's not extremely difficult, but it
does take a bit of work, since it has a lot of options that need to be
set correctly.
As for wget, it is capable of using ftp as well as http to move files
around, but it takes a few extra command-line parameters to make it
happen. Fortunately, their man page is quite thorough, so you
shouldn't have too much trouble getting it working, but if you have
trouble, email me off list, and I'll help out as much as you need.
hth.
On Sep 26, 2014, at 12:59 AM, Sarah k Alawami wrote:
I tried to fidn the mirrior command in ncftp but it was not there
inthe latest man ncftp I read. and mget did not work and get did
not work, wget did not work as this is not an http folder. I ended
up when I got home usign transmit but I really did not want to go
that rout. as it would still have been faster to go from my server
to his linode, both of whichare in california. lol!
On Sep 23, 2014, at 10:47 AM, Travis Siegel <[email protected]>
wrote:
Rget is intended to continue an interrupted transfer, not sync a
folder that already exists. I've actually not tried to sync
folders via ftp the way you are doing. Normally, a perl/bash
script would be run on the host system (in this case, yours)
comparing the two folders, then ftp is used to move just the needed
files, but it's used as a separate process, not as an integrated
whole solution. However, it may be possible to use wget to do what
you want, something like
wget -m -np
might do the trick, but that's off the top of my head, so case
might be off (I.E. may need a capital m instead of lower case), and
you may or may not need the -np parameter. In any case, if wget
won't do the job, you can always try a program called mirror, which
is written in perl, and is used by folks all over the world to keep
sites in sync, folks such as the project gutenberg, so you know
it's in heavy use.
Mirror can be gotten from the perl cpan repository, or you can
probably google it if you need it via a web download, but honestly,
I'd expect one of those two solutions (wget or mirror) to do the
trick for you.
hth.
On Sep 22, 2014, at 1:47 PM, Sarah k Alawami wrote:
Ok here you go with a bit of a challenge.
I have a folder I was coppying from my server to someone's linode,
with their permission. I changed some of the folder's contents on
my server but when I redoo get -R dirname it does not copy the
newer folder's contents over. I verified thsi with an ls at the
folder in which I made the change on this person's linode. What
do I need to do to do this with ncftp? I know I'm close but
googling right now is not helping. Maybe because I'm kind of still
a bit jetlaggy. lol!
Tc all.
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