Re: [gftp] Resume/overwrite issue

[Anthony DiSante <theant@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Diccon Towns wrote:
> Is there any way to get gFTP to default to 'overwrite' rather than 
> 'resume' when synchronising directories? I don't want to overwrite all 
> the files (which checking the 'Overwrite by Default' option does) just 
> files that are a different size/date.
>
> At the moment I have to go through each file, changing it from resume to 
> overwrite which is time-consuming as I'm making frequent updates to a 
> large site.
>
> Regards
>
> Diccon

I'm not familiar with gFTP's directory-sync feature, but this is a job that 
rsync handles well.  Assuming that the server has rsync and SSH installed, 
you'd just run this command on the client:

rsync -av --delete /source/dir/on/client/ user@xxxxxxxxxx:/dest/dir/on/server/

That will cause the destination directory to be a mirror of the source 
directory, and rsync will only copy the files that need to be copied (i.e. 
new/changed files).

(And --delete just means to delete any files on the server that no longer 
exist on the client, that is, it's part of the mirroring operation.)

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