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,
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>Thanks to all for previous feedback.
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>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?
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>Thanks in advance.
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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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