Re: ftp software

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject	Re: ftp software
Date	2016-10-22 01:36 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
Message-ID	<e6vu5dFkri8U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On 2016-10-21, gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:
> On 2016-10-21 20:48:36 +0000, Jolly Roger said:
>
>> On 2016-10-21, Fred Moore <fmoore@gfcn.huh> wrote:
>>> On 10/17/16 2:21 p, Jolly Roger wrote:
>>>> No, Fetch does do synchronization:
>>>> 
>>>> <https://i.imgur.com/MERPgHu.png>
>>>> 
>>>> The reason I would use rsync is it can be done completely in the
>>>> background, with no user interface, on an automated (periodic) basis.
>>>> Fetch can be automated as well, but not without all of the overhead of
>>>> launching the Fetch application and so on.
>>> 
>>> If you want to use rsync, let me suggest BackupList+. It's excellent
>>> donationware which loads its own version of rsync, usually more recent
>>> than Apple's. It can easily run in the background and automatically
>>> backup files, folders, or volumes on schedule, say every hour if you like.
>>> 
>>> <http://robdutoitsoftware.com>
>>> 
>>> There is a manual on the available .dmg file.
>>> 
>>> Just a satisfied user.
>> 
>> Thanks. I'll check it out some time.
>
> Actually as I consider my true operational needs, what I'll need is a
> script that deletes a folder on my server, and copies one on my drive
> to replace it.  No more.

That's potentially very inefficient because you will quite likely be
transferring files that have not changed. A better way would be to only
transfer what has actually changed so that the destination is
technically the same as the source, rather than replacing everything no
matter what. That happens to be exactly what rsync is designed to do. 

> So it really is a hot-key or "go" button that would do the trick for
> me. 

You can create an rsync command file and initiate it with a double-click
if you want: 

1. Use TextWrangler or any plain text editor to create a file
with this single-line command in it:

/usr/bin/rsync --progress --times --itemize-changes --stats
--human-readable --checksum --recursive --links --owner --group --perms
--executability --compress --exclude='.svn/' --exclude='.DS_Store'
/source/path/here dest/path/here

2. Save the file with the name "sync.command".

3. Double-click the command file to execute it in a new terminal window. 

It's that simple. I use the above in scripts to synchronize various
content between my workstation and a server. You can, of course, change
the command-line switches to do anything else you want. For instance, to
exclude other files or folders, add an --exclude switch.

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JR

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