Re: Bug in lftp mirror when using xfer:use-temp-file option

Here are the debug logs test.txt is the file that is changed:

lftp [email protected]:~/Desktop/lftp> mirror
---> TYPE A
<--- 200 Type set to A.
---> PASV
<--- 227 Entering Passive Mode (192,168,128,124,228,174)
---- Connecting data socket to (192.168.128.124) port 58542
---- Data connection established
---> LIST
<--- 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for '/bin/ls'.
---- Got EOF on data connection
---- Closing data socket
<--- 226 Transfer complete.
---> TYPE I
<--- 200 Type set to I.
---> MDTM .DS_Store
<--- 213 20141027064918
---> MDTM search-2.html
<--- 213 20140811111726
---> MDTM search-3.html
<--- 213 20140811111744
---> MDTM search-4.html
<--- 213 20140811111745
---> MDTM search.html
<--- 213 20140811111722
---> MDTM settings.xml
<--- 213 20140820095244
---> MDTM test.txt
<--- 213 20141027075438
---> PASV
<--- 227 Entering Passive Mode (192,168,128,124,228,176)
---- Connecting data socket to (192.168.128.124) port 58544
---- Data connection established
---> RETR test.txt
<--- 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for 'test.txt' (202 bytes).
---- Got EOF on data connection
---- Closing data socket
<--- 226 Transfer complete.
Total: 1 directory, 7 files, 0 symlinks
Modified: 1 file, 0 symlinks
202 bytes transferred
To be removed: 0 directories, 1 file, 0 symlinks
---- Closing idle connection
---> QUIT
**** Timeout - reconnecting
<--- 221-
<---     Data traffic for this session was 172301 bytes in 7 files.
<---     Total traffic for this session was 181339 bytes in 13 transfers.
<--- 221 Thank you for using the FTP service on 192.168.128.124.
---- Closing control socket


~Akshay

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Alexander Lukyanov <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Can you provide a debug log? Why lftp cannot replace the old file?
>
> 2014-10-27 10:44 GMT+03:00 akshay gupta <[email protected]>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to mirror files using lftp, I have tested a use case where a
>> file at the source machine gets modified but the file name remains the
>> same. After mirroring, lftp is unable to replace the old file and also
>> leaves a temporary file.
>>
>> For example. If source have file a.txt and its mirrored successfully at
>> the destination, now if I update a.txt append some content and save it with
>> same name. If I run lftp mirror again then its not able to replace the
>> existing a.txt but it also leaves the temp file a.txt_transit_ behind. And
>> if i run the mirror multiple times it always downloads the changed a.txt, i
>> can see this from the lftp logs.
>>
>> Suggestion: Will it make sense to keep versions of the files as they are
>> updated at the source. Like if a.txt is changed at source then lftp mirror
>> will save it as a.txt_{TIMESTAMP}_. Every time a file is updated it will be
>> saved with a new time stamp. And mirror will consider these file to decide
>> whether to download or not.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Akshay
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
>    Alexander.
>

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