Re: lynx-dev mirror, mirror

[Jean-Pierre Radley]

Philip Webb averred (on Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 08:49:28AM -0500):
| 990126 Jim Spath wrote: 
| > Mirroring is the automatic copying of an FTP directory to another site.
| > Personal copying on a random basis is not mirroring.
| 
| this is useful for everyone to know.  further questions:
| where does one get the software needed to do mirroring
| -- presumably you have to be or get the co-operation of a sysadmin -- ?
| how can automatically copied mirrors sometimes be out-of-date?

ncftp is very useful for mirroring directories.  It will only fetch
files when they are newer than the version on your own disk.

The cooperation you need is not from the remote system whence come the
files; you need permission to put them in a publicly available ftp
directory on your own site, so that still others may get at the files.

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