Re: [gftp] gFTP as a mirroring tool

[Anthony DiSante <orders@nodivisions.com>]

Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was looking for a tool able to mirror a remote folder via ssh.
>
> What's interesting, I didn't find one! gFTP seems to be the only thing 
> able to do this (AFAIK, rsync -e ssh needs to have a remote rsync server 
> running).
That's not true.  Rsync does not require an rsync server on either machine. 
 It can use SSH as the transport instead.  From the manpage:

>>>
There are eight different ways of using rsync. They are:

...

o for copying from the local machine to a remote machine using a remote 
shell program as the transport (such as rsh or ssh). This  is  invoked  when 
 the destination path contains a single : separator.

o for copying from a remote machine to the local machine using a remote 
shell program. This is invoked when the source contains a : separator.
<<<

rsync -a --delete user@remotehost:/source/path /local/dest/path

or

rsync -a --delete /local/source/path user@remotehost:/dest/path

I use rsync for this all the time.

-Anthony
http://nodivisions.com/