Synchronizing directory hierarchies via SFTP

[Michael Ross]

Am .12.2015, 00:43 Uhr, schrieb Patrick Hess <patrickhess at gmx.net>:

> Anton Sayetsky wrote:
>> Do you have a shell or only SFTP access? rsync supports SSH natively.
>
> Nope, no shell access, only SFTP, so rsync is not an option.
>
> Just came across LFTP, http://lftp.yar.ru. According to the feature list,
> it has support for SFTP and also comes with a "built-in mirror and  
> reverse
> mirror" option. And, even better, it's already in the ports as ftp/lftp.
> Seems worth investigating, but that'll have to wait till tomorrow.

lftp is used a lot here to mirror directories via sftp. Would recommend.

You can script your transfer jobs nicely ( like, "cd somewhere || exit 1"  
).
Check out the fine-tuning available with "set -a".


Regards,

Michael



>
> Patrick
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