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Re: What's wrong with rsync'ing ftp ?




On 03/09/2001 10:15:58 AM ZE2 Andrei Verovski wrote:
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>Hi,
>
>Thanks to all for previous feedback.
>
>I am using the following statement to sync ftp directories:
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>rsync -av ftp.funet.fi:/pub/Linux/mirror/ /home/mirror/
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>
>However, it does not work with ANY ftp server. The error message is
>Connection refused. Unexpected EOF in read-timeout.
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>What I did wrong?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>

Why do you expect that you can rsync a ftp server? rsync and
ftp are differnet protocols residing on different ports.
You'd need a rsync server on the remote machine.

regards,
chris




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