cheers guys for your help.
To clarify the problem I have is at work one of our departments
regularly ask me to download files from one of their suppliers. I was
thinking that rather than do this when asked I could use a tool like
rsync to download any new files and then notify me.
Rsync works great for me at home when syncing a repo through ftp so my
my first thought was can it do a similar job on a secure ftp site that
uses a password and user name.
In light of this is it possible to log in to a ftp site using the
standard ftp tool and do a directory listing then exit whilst logging
the session to a file eg channel 1> ftp_output (Not sure about my
syntax on this) then use diff or grep to match any differences between
my last dir, and download the new files?
Any thoughts?
On 03/09/07, Ed Kasky <ed(a)esson.net> wrote:
At 01:22 PM Monday, 9/3/2007, Ed Greshko wrote -=>
>Paul Ward wrote:
> > Hi Peeps,
> >
> > Does anyone know if it is possible to use rsync to back up an ftp site
> > that uses a password.
> >
> > I am aware of rsync://[USER@]HOST[:PORT]/SRC [DEST] but how do I
> > handle the password?
> >
> > If this is not possible does it mean I have to use sftp?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
>
>I think you don't quite understand rsync.
>
>There are two sides to any transfer. The client side and the server side.
>The site holding the data, in your case the "ftp site", needs to have the
>rsync server configured to allow a client to connect and transfer data. It
>doesn't use the ftp protocol at all. From the man page....
>
>DESCRIPTION
> rsync is a program that behaves in much the same way that rcp does, but
> has many more options and uses the rsync remote-update protocol to
> greatly speed up file transfers when the destination file is being
> updated.
>
>See the rsync man page for additional information on connection options.
>
>So, if you have access to the "ftp site" and can configure the rsync
server
>on it...or if the "ftp site" supports or the owner will support rsync you
>can use it. Otherwise you'll have to use alternate tools.
A great alternate tool you might want to look at is ncftp.
http://www.ncftp.com/ncftp/
Ed
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