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Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 12:22:04 -0400
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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To: Robert Collins <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
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Subject: Re: Now that the new setup is here...
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Robert Collins wrote:

> sitecopy is worth a look as a mirroring tool..


Sitecopy is intended for keeping a remote site in sync with the local 
master version (e.g. uploading your personal website to a server on 
which you have ftp access).  It's isn't great for keeping a local mirror 
of a remote master. From sitecopy's website:

"But, sitecopy does not go to the FTP server and see what's there every 
time - this is the fundamental difference between sitecopy and mirror."

This seems to be a problem, to me.  Mebbe the 'mirror' perl script is 
the real way to go, here, rather than kludged-up scripts around 
wget...but then, 'mirror' only works with ftp site, and doesn't do http 
downloads (e.g. http://mirrors.rcn.net/)

--Chuck