Re: Good Debian/Linux FTP Client program ???
Ken Irving wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 06:58:27PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
>> P Kapat wrote:
>>> Can you provide your script? I was looking for some thing very
>>> similar. I have been fiddling around with Keep but not quite
>>> satisfied.
>> No warranties 8-)
>>
>> The man pages will help to understand the options, you should
>> verify and adopt them to your situation.
>>
>> I tried to translate some prompts to English. This one makes no
>> backups, I have slightly more complex ones, but those contain more
>> German.
>>
>> The line with backups is like
>>
>> rsync -avb --delete --backup-dir=/media/sda2/altjohannes \
>> --suffix=-`date +%y%m%d%H%M` \ /johannes2 /media/sda2
>>
>> (or all on one line without the '\')
>
> There are also packages set up to do this sort of thing, e.g.,
> rsnapshot, which started life as the author's home-grown script.
>
> Hmm, looking at the subject I'm not sure if this is on-topic... The
> context quoted in this message isn't very complete.
I will try to trim less next time.
To quote from this thread:
Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 04/18/07 21:00, Randy Patterson wrote:
>> Thanks so much for all the good input from everyone. I now have to
>> go to work
>> checking out some of the packages to see which is the best for my
>> current
>> needs. I have already install lftp and will try sitecopy as well.
>
> This thread is a perfect example of why people asking opinion
> questions should rather ask "task-oriented" questions instead of
> getting tunnel vision and saying "Where's the exact copy of my
> favorite Windows <X> program?".
>
> (Note that I'm not ragging on Randy, or belittling him. It's a trap
> we all fall into.)
;-)
Johannes
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