Looking for a FTP sync'er suggestion

[doug]

On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Kelvin Woods wrote:

> On Tue, March 11, 2008 16:27, Michael Ross wrote:
>> Michaël Grünewald schrieb:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am looking for a program able to make a remote FTP site look like a copy 
>>> of a local dir. I feel as if I were dunce-cap-awards(R) nominated, but I 
>>> really did not find one!
>>>
>>> In ports/ftp many programs say they do the reverse, and a few say they 
>>> ``mirror'' without more explanation. I gave a tried to mirror, ftpmirror and 
>>> ftpsync (among others), all of them broke or failed to be useful.
>>>
>>>
>>> I need this to publish a web site on a space allocated to me by my ISP, I am 
>>> writing a script that automates publication, and at the very end, I
>>>  noticed the key-piece was missing!
>>
>> I usually do it with lftp, in a script like:
>>
>> [michael at serafina ~]$ cat work/websites/foobar/lftp.upload
>> #!/usr/local/bin/lftp -f
>> debug 3;
>> set dns:fatal-timeout 30;
>> set ftp:ssl-allow true;
>> open -u username,password host;
>> put upload/updating.php -o /index.php || exit 1
>> mirror --verbose=1 --parallel=1 --delete --reverse \
>> --exclude ".htaccess" --exclude ".htpasswd" \
>> --exclude "index.php" --exclude "updating.php" \
>> upload / || exit 1
>> put upload/index.php -o /index.php || exit 1
>>
>> Then I'll call ./lftp.upload and be done.
>>
>> Michael
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>
> I'd support this suggestion as well. Using lftp (from the ports tree)
> requires nothing more that an FTP server at the remote end (i.e. the
> ISP). It can "mirror" in both directions, i.e. client -> server and
> server -> client.
>
lftp is neat and new (to me). It reminds me of the advice given by Evi Nemeth 
gave in the first Unix book I read some years ago, paraphrased as, "look at all 
the man pages every so often".

If the ISP supports ssh, putting a key on the server allows easy update for a 
few files:

   scp [-r] [path-to-file/]newfile.html id at isp.server.com:/path-to-html/