[time-nuts] file synchronization via ftp

[Didier Juges]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com 
> [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On Behalf Of Chris Kuethe
> Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 7:25 PM
> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] file synchronization via ftp
> 
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Didier Juges <didier at cox.net> wrote:
> > I would have to upgrade to a Business package (instead of the Home 
> > package) to have SSH, which would double the cost.
> >
> > I am evaluating FTPSync. It looks like it might do the job, 
> thanks for 
> > the suggestion
> 
> Depending on how comfortable you are with scripting, you 
> could just parse the output from "ls -lR" on the ftp server 
> and compare it with a local "ls -lR". If the remote doesn't 
> support "ls -lR", you can automate that yourself. Some ftp 
> clients (like ncftp) are vaguely smart about not transferring 
> duplicate files...
> 

Well, that's how my Manuals script creates the index. It's written in Perl,
and if I am going to write anything  to do this, I am tempted to put Perl on
my Windows machine and do it in Perl, I already have the script :-) Beats
anything else (that I am familiar with) for that kind of work.

I would just match filenames and filesize, time stamps don't mean anything.

Thanks for the suggestions.

Didier