Re: Unwanted deletion of remote files

As a workaround, Chris, perhaps you could write a scripthat calls sitecopy 
then wget in turn.

Doug.

On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 8:51 am, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Hi Doug,
>
> First of all, thanks for your replies and suggestions. I know that ignore
> and exclude "should" do what I want, but they don't succeed in actually
> doing it, as far as I can tell. For example, see the configuration I
> posted, where files in explicitly excluded directories were scheduled for
> deletion by Sitecopy. Either I'm abusing sitecopy in some way that isn't
> clear from the documentation, or it's a bug in sitecopy (IMHO).
>
> > Sorry, I missed the bit about wanting to download files but not modify
> > them.
>
> That would be nice, but not essential.
>
> > 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 understand that this appears to be a limitation in sitecopy at the
> moment, but not one that is inherent to the protocol (wget can do it), and
> I think it would be a very useful feature to support.
>
> Cheers, Chris.

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