Sync between linux server + ftp server

[Drakkon]

I have a server running ubuntu 7 and an external FTP server that updates every so often that i need to mirror a subset of the files. Right now I am using my windows machine to run a sync program to update the directory but was wondering if theres a cron style solution that can be run via cmd line to do the same thing? I don't want to get the whole FTP directory, just a subset of the files (those with extention .ext), and always keep them mirrored on the hard drive on my server without having to re download the whole thing each week.

any ideas?

 

[Nothinman]

Look at wget.

 

[Drakkon]

looked up wget - fount lftp (has a mirror option + ability to do reg exp) 😀 thanks!

 

[Brazen]

doesn't rsync have ftp support?

 

[Nothinman]

No, AFAIK you need some form of shell (rsh, ssh, etc) or the rsync daemon listening on the remote site.

 

[Netopia]

Yup... you need rsync on both ends.

Joe