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? 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