Yeah ewe'll see whawt hapens. His linode runs I think debiun linux or something 
but I'm way too tired to think right now. lol!

Take care. 
On Sep 27, 2014, at 9:37 PM, Travis Siegel <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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