Re: Bug in lftp mirror when using xfer:use-temp-file option
"Alexander V. Lukyanov" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.lftp.user,gmane.network.lftp.devel |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 01:30:42PM +0530, akshay gupta wrote: > ---> 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. So the file cannot be renamed locally, right? Is there a permissions problem? -- Alexander. > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > lftp mailing list > [email protected] > http://univ.uniyar.ac.ru/mailman/listinfo/lftp _______________________________________________ lftp mailing list [email protected] http://univ.uniyar.ac.ru/mailman/listinfo/lftp