Are you using --timestamping (-N)? If so, can you do without it, or replace it with --no-clobber?
But then you will only download new files, not newer files? But I want the newer files (updated virus definition files from ftp.f-prot.com).
And I tried -nc on downloading only new files from ftp.eps.gov. While it worked, the comparison is very slow, a significant fraction of a second to compare each file. With over 700 files to compare and refuse, it takes a long time to perform the comparison operation on all of the files. With -N, and comparing using the .listing file, the comparison of all 700 files takes only about a second after the .listing file has been downloaded, and the download of the one new file (or two or three new files if a couple of days have gone by) begins immediately.
v/r
Fred Holmes
