getting two directories to be the same

[Steve Buehler]

At 05:27 PM 3/24/2005, you wrote:
>>I am doing backups of a remote server by mounting the remote server using
>>NFS.  I am now running into the same problem that I was having trying
>>different ftp programs to mirror it.  The problem is deleting files on the
>>backup server that are not on the remote server.  There is not ssh access
>>to the remote server and the ftp daemon on the remote server sucks to say
>>the least.  Anyway, I have the remote server NFS'd to the local (backup)
>>server.  Is there an easy way to mirror the directory recursively from the
>>nfs drive to the local drive?  I NEVER want to delete anything from the
>>NFS'd drive.
>
>rsync seems to be your best bet :)
>It will also give you the ability to do away with your nfs mount since 
>rsync can function via ssh and other less secure protocols not requiring 
>the filesystem to be local, this the r in rsync.

Thanks, but nope.  I have a choice of ftp, and nfs.  rsync is one of the 
first things that I had checked into when we took this job to do a remote 
backup for a customer.  Will rsync work the nfs mount like it was 
remote?  The customer is running a Snap server that doesn't allow ssh, 
telnet, rsync.  It allows limited ftp and it allows nfs.

Steve