FTP diff via script?

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 6/8/06, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > On 6/8/06, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
> >> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> >> > Can anyone suggest how I would go about downloading an entire FTP tree
> >> > (the easy part) then basically making diffs of it every day?
> >> >
> >> > I can do the scripting, just not sure what tools are out there, or
> >> > what search terms to use.
> >>
> >> Why don't you just use "rsync"?
> >>
> >
> > Wasn't aware that rsync supported FTP, will have to checkup on that.
>
> I didn't say it supported FTP....  It is a transfer mechanism on to
> itself.  But, it does what I think you are asking.  It will only
> transfer the bits that have changed.
>

Well thanks, but the data to be transfered is only accessible to me
via ftp....sadly.


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