[Gllug] Re: ftp syncing

[Craig Millar]

On 17/01/06 16:06 +0000, t.clarke wrote:
> I have have misunderstood the problem,    but if you use a bog-standard ftp
> client to firstly list all the files within the ftp server to a file on your
> local machine,  you should then be able to build a local file containing
> a simple list of the image-files on the server.  Then perhaps you could
> do a periodic comparison of the list with yr catalogue and from the
> comparison feed a list of files to be uploaded to 'wput'. The list would
> naturally need to be updated localy at the same time.  Just a thought, for what
> its worth !

Thanks Tim - I think I'll have to go that route as it does seem to make the most
sense.. I'm thinking of a python script that uses sets for easy comparison of
the remote and local files. The reason I was looking for a ready rolled
solution was because I'd ideally like it to sync on timestamps as well as
names, so if a file is updated locally it's synced over.

> Presumably yu also need to remove no-longer-needed image files from the
> server as well?

Yep - I didn't mention that.

> Tim

Thanks again
Craig
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