Lothar Scholz wrote:
> I must do the things rsync does but i can only use an FTP server at
> one side of the sync. Is there a good free FTP synchronization tool
> for linux ?

You could use lftp. (My fav. ftp program)

lftp has a 'mirror .' command which does the trick, though not as effecient
as rsync would.

There's probably a lot more options, have a look at CPAN if you're inclined
toward a perl solution. (seems like there were some ftp solutions they were
using to synchronize their archive among hosts)

Jamie

thumb_42@yahoo.com wrote in message news:...
> Lothar Scholz wrote:
> > I must do the things rsync does but i can only use an FTP server at
> > one side of the sync. Is there a good free FTP synchronization tool
> > for linux ?
>
> You could use lftp. (My fav. ftp program)
>
> lftp has a 'mirror .' command which does the trick, though not as effecient
> as rsync would.

I updated to the latest version, but this program is still too buggy. I
don't want to use something that is so unrealiable.

Lothar Scholz wrote:
> I must do the things rsync does but i can only use an FTP server at
> one side of the sync. Is there a good free FTP synchronization tool
> for linux ?

fmirror - memory efficient ftp mirror program
ftpgrab - file mirroring utility
ftpmirror - Mirroring directory hierarchy with FTP
mirror - Keeps FTP archives up-to-date

All of these are available under Debian Testing as follows

Package: fmirror
Version: 2:0.8.4-12
Description: memory efficient ftp mirror program
A program for mirroring a directory from a remote ftp server. It
allows regex-matching for files that are to be included and
excluded. It uses a combination of timestamp, file size and file
permissions to decide what files to transfer from the ftp server.

Package: ftpgrab
Version: 0.1.2r-6
Description: file mirroring utility
ftpgrab is a utility for maintaining FTP mirrors. In fact not unlike the
"Mirror" perl program. However ftpgrab is oriented towards the smaller
site which doesn't have the resources to mirror entire version trees of
software.