[Gllug] mirror up

Andy Smith andy at lug.org.uk
Wed Sep 5 10:53:13 UTC 2001


On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 11:43:26AM +0100, Gordon Joly wrote:
> At 10:33 +0000 2001-09-05, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> >
> >Last time I looked, the documentation gave no hint of it being able to do
> >this:
> >
> >" mirror is a perl script which uses the local FTP client to
> >   make exact copies  of  directories  or  parts  thereof  on
> >   remote  FTP servers."
> >
> 
> 
> Are we talking about the Perl script mirror.pl?

ic.ac.uk's mirror.pl definitely does mirroring both ways (from
either side) very very well, as I used to use it for such
extensively.  Though of course rsync, cvsup etc. are far better
suited to it.

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