Hi,
it took me a while to figure out how to do incremental updates of a local
copy of some directory. When user doesn't want to use --mirror, for example
one doesn't like host directories like ftp://foo.bar/pub/blah/blah, files
get either overwritten or re-downloaded as stored as $file.1 etc.
I had to google around to find out what I needed. :(
I miss good examples in the manpage, epecially those lifting-up
--timestamping.
Not everyone uses --mirror, and one would think instead of using cryptic
--mirror
option, let's design it on his own.
See current manpage:
-m
--mirror
Turn on options suitable for mirroring. This option turns on
recursion and time-stamping, sets
infinite recursion depth and keeps FTP directory listings. It is
currently equivalent to -r -N
-l inf -nr.
Isn't --timestamping missing in this equivalence list? ... Oh, I see, -N is
--timestamping.
Grr, I belive it should be mentioned in words here for clarity.
-N
--timestamping
Turn on time-stamping.
Very informative description. ;-) I propose:
"Turn on time-stamping. This option is used to do incremental backups/updates
of a remote server directory,
for example. This option is used when mirroring mode is selected."
Hope this helps
Martin
