Re: Unwanted deletion of remote files

Sorry, I missed the bit about wanting to download files but not modify them.  

Perhaps I should leave this to Joe, but sitecopy is meant to work upward to 
the server, not primarily in the reverse direction.  As a general rule, 
downloading from an FTP server doesn't work anyway.  I would confine sitecopy 
to what goes up, and use some other program such as ftp or wget to download 
only.

I have a similar issue with a genealogy program that can be modified online by 
somebody else.  I put this to this list, and was told that sitecopy couldn't 
handle the situation. - at least not on an FTP server. I am still looking at 
alternatives.  In the mean time, I am still using sitecopy, because 
modification by others is rather unusual at present, and I always run 
sitecopy without -u first, to see what differs.

Doug.

On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:44 pm, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
> Either "ignnore" or "exclude" should do what you want.  "exclude" will
> delete them, "ignore" will leave them alone.  For added security, I have
> write-protected files that I don't want touched.
>
> Doug L.
>
> On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 6:44 am, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I think I have found another problem with sitecopy. There are certain
> > remote files that I would like sitecopy not to modify in any way (e.g.
> > website access logs). If possible, I would like sitecopy to download them
> > but not upload them, but I can't find any documented way to achieve that.
> >
> > Worse, I cannot make Sitecopy not delete them from the remote site. I
> > have already lost all my access logs, due to my own complacency in
> > running sitecopy -u.
> >
> > Sitecopy -l shows the following:
> >
> > chris@gcc(nm)$ sitecopy -l audit
> > sitecopy: Showing changes to site `audit' (on ftp.marketaudit.co.uk in /)
> > * These items have been added since the last update:
> > site/gantt.js, site/audit.js
> > * These items have been changed since the last update:
> > site/moreinfo.html, site/index.html
> > * These items have been deleted since the last update:
> > archive/db-01.sql.gz, archive/db-02.sql.gz, archive/db-03.sql.gz,
> > archive/db-04.sql.gz, archive/db-05.sql.gz, archive/db-06.sql.gz,
> > archive/db-07.sql.gz, archive/db-08.sql.gz, archive/db-09.sql.gz,
> > archive/db-10.sql.gz, archive/db-11.sql.gz, archive/db-12.sql.gz,
> > archive/db-13.sql.gz, archive/db-14.sql.gz, archive/db-15.sql.gz,
> > archive/db-16.sql.gz, archive/db-17.sql.gz, archive/db-18.sql.gz,
> > archive/db-19.sql.gz, archive/db-20.sql.gz, archive/db-21.sql.gz,
> > archive/db-22.sql.gz, archive/db-23.sql.gz, archive/db-24.sql.gz,
> > archive/db-25.sql.gz, archive/db-26.sql.gz, archive/db-27.sql.gz,
> > archive/db-28.sql.gz, dir:site/logs
> > sitecopy: The remote site needs updating (33 items to update).
> >
> > I don't want it to touch the archive directory, nor site/logs, but I
> > can't make it not delete all those files. My configuration is:
> >
> > site audit
> >          server ftp.marketaudit.co.uk
> >          remote /
> >          local /home/chris/project/nm/remote
> >          username xxx
> >          password xxx
> >          protocol ftp
> >          exclude /bin
> >          exclude /etc
> >          exclude /lib
> >          exclude /logs
> >          ignore /site/logs
> >          ignore /audit
> >          ignore /archive
> >          state checksum
> >          checkmoved renames
> >          permissions all
> >
> > I have tried "ignore" and "exclude" directives, and neither does what I
> > want. Please help!
> >
> > Do I need to run "sitecopy -f" after modifying the configuration? It
> > takes forever because it checksums each remote file.
> >
> > Cheers, Chris.

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