[Gllug] Something Simple

[Andy Smith]

On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 03:12:15PM +0000, James Bailey wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> A simple question but one that is causing me problems. Is there an easy way 
> to automatically ftp the contents of a directory up to a remote web server 
> running ftp.
> 
> I want to write some sort of script that I run and it connect to the ftp 
> server and then copies the contents of a directory up then disconnects..

The best thing is probably to do it with rsync, which will be far
more efficient and secure than ftp.

Failing that, the "mirror" package
(http://sunsite.org.uk/packages/mirror/) is designed for doing this
over ftp and can do so in either direction from either end.

-- 
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