[thelist] ftp synchronization tool

[Joshua Olson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sarah" <poohbear at designshift.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 10:51 AM


> Unfortunately, the site I am trying to synchronize has thousands of files,
> in particular one directory which contains about 2500 documents which are
> constantly being added, updated, deleted by the site admins. The reason I
> am looking for an ftp synchronizer is so that I can just do the
> synchronizing automatically, without having to "supervise". My other
option
> is to just delete the entire site from the remote server and upload it
> fresh, but I am trying to save time and bandwidth. My main goal is to
avoid
> uploading files which are already on the remote server, and are the same
as
> those on the local server.

Sarah,

wget is a port of a unix utility that will do just what you need.

www.waetech.com/docs/wget20020612b.zip

I've used it to synch via ftp hundreds of thousands of files and it worked
wonderful.

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Joshua Olson
Web Application Engineer
WAE Tech Inc.
http://www.waetech.com
706.210.0168