Hi Dan, I must admit that I don't fully understand your question.
-nc means no clobber, that means that files that already exist locally are not downloaded again, independent from their age or size or whatever. -N means that only newer files are downloaded (or if the size differs). So these two options are mutually exclusive. I could imagine that you want something like wget --no-clobber --keep-server-time URL right? If I understand the manual correctly, this date should normally be kept for http, at least if you specify wget URL I just tested this and it works for me. (With -S and/or -s you can print the http headers, if you need to.) However, I noticed that quite many servers do not provide a last-modified header. Did this answer your question? Jens > I'd love to have an option so that, when mirroring, it > will backup only files that are replaced because they > are newer on the source system (time-stamping). > > Is there a reason these can't be enabled together? > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! > http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ > > I'd love to have an option so that, when mirroring, it > will backup only files that are replaced because they > are newer on the source system (time-stamping). > > Is there a reason these can't be enabled together? > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! > http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ > -- GMX ProMail (250 MB Mailbox, 50 FreeSMS, Virenschutz, 2,99 EUR/Monat...) jetzt 3 Monate GRATIS + 3x DER SPIEGEL +++ http://www.gmx.net/derspiegel +++
