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- Mirror is a package written in Perl that uses the ftp protocol to
- duplicate a directory hierarchy between the machine it is run on and a
- remote host. It avoids copying files unnecessarily by comparing the
- file timestamps and sizes before transfering. Amongst other things
- can optionally compress, gzip, and split files.
-
- It was written for use by archive maintainers but can be used by
- anyone wanting to transfer a lot of files over ftp.
-
-
- INSTALLATION:
- IF INSTALLING MIRROR JUST FOR ARCHIVE MAINTENANCE:
-
- Normally pick a directory that you want to run mirror from. Unravel the tar
- image in that directory. Edit the mirror.defaults to reflect local settings.
-
- IF YOU ARE PLANNING ON MAKING MIRROR AVAILABLE AS A USER COMMAND:
-
- Install into a publically accessible lib area (for example
- /usr/local/lib/mirror) and add a symlink from a suitable bin area to
- the mirror.pl in the lib directory. It this is not possible given
- your local setup install all the .pl scripts into a lib area that will
- be scanned by perl and install the binary in a suitable bin.
-
-
- If h2ph has been run for your system then you should probably remove
- socket.ph and use the one *meant* for your machine. If h2ph has not
- been run then you should persuade your systems administrators to do
- so. The contents of socket.ph are operating system specific and it is
- possible that what works for me will not work for you.
-
- AVAILABILITY:
- The latest version of mirror is available from:
-
- src.doc.ic.ac.uk [146.169.2.1]
- directory: computing/archiving/mirror
- (shortcut packages/mirror)
-
- ftp.th-darmstadt.de [130.83.55.75]
- directory: pub/networking/mirror
-
-
- ftp.sun.ac.za [146.232.212.3]
- directory: pub/unix/packages/mirror
-
-
- RELATED:
- Mirror is part of a family of related programs. The others are ftpmail
- and ftpcat. Ftpmail is a mail responder and ftpcat cats a remote file.
- These are to be found in src.doc.ic.ac.uk:packages/ftpmail/
- and packages/ftpcat/.
-
- If you are interested in developing mirror (not just getting the
- latest releases but actually doing work) there is a mailing list
- mirror-people@doc.ic.ac.uk. Subscribe by emailing to
- mirror-people-request@doc.ic.ac.uk. But please do NOT do this unless you
- have the time to work on mirror.
-