Re: FTP issues

is your 'local system' linux? then the totally non answer is probably that you should be using rsync. if it's a windows machine you can probably still use rsync there by running it on top of cygwin. I would also recommend tunnelling the rsync traffic through an SSH connection. Larry Bradley wrote: > The following issues are not really PHP issues, but more properly FTP > server issues, but perhaps people on the list have some ideas on how to > solve my problems. > > I've written a PHP program to "mirror" data on a local drive to a remote > FTP server. It compares file mod times, and only uploads files that are > newer. Works like a charm. Except --- > > The remote FTP server is running on a Fedora LINUX system, but I think > any server would present the same issues. > > To examine the remote directories, I use ftp_rawlist() to get a > directory listing which I parse. However, the file modification time > does not have a year, and does not show the seconds. I get around this > by "assuming" the year is the current one, and then compare the file > times of the local and remote files ignoring local file seconds. If they > are different, I use ftp_mdtm() to get the real remote time, and then do > my compare. This slows things down a bit, as I have to go to the FTP > server one more time. > > Any thoughts on how to get around this? Is there a way to get a better > directory listing? > > Second and more serious problem is that when I FTP the file to the > server, the file mod time gets set to the current (file-creation) time. > The same thing happens in a local-to-local file copy using copy(), but I > can use touch() to update the mod time. > > Any thoughts on how I might get the remote FTP server to do the > equivalent of touch()? > > I realize that these are not actual PHP problems, but maybe one of you > has run across similar issues. > > Many thanks. > > Larry Bradley > Orleans (Ottawa), Ontario, CANADA