Sitek Blog » ftp http://blog.sitek.com.au About IT and Technology Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:37:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Using FTP to Sync http://blog.sitek.com.au/2008/03/using-ftp-to-sync/ http://blog.sitek.com.au/2008/03/using-ftp-to-sync/#comments Sun, 09 Mar 2008 10:42:54 +0000 James Moey http://blog.sitek.com.au/?p=5 Today, I discover a very exciting and useful tool, lftp. I was looking for a way to sync my client’s work on my development machine with client’s production machine. Even though the project is stored on SVN. I have no SSH access to the client production machine. The only access to the machine is FTP. After some searches, I found lftp. The thing I like about it, is that it is possible to script ftp to automate future synchronization. That is an excellent and important feature to have.

This is what I have in my lftp script file, lftp.script

open serverhost
user username password
lcd localdirectory
cd remotedirectory
mirror -R --only-newer

When I want to sync the directory, I just run the command “lftp -f lftp.script”. This will synchronize the two directory. Of course, this is the last option if client machine does not have SSH and/or SVN installed.

More information about lftp tool can be found here, http://lftp.yar.ru/

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