Author: wmd04r Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] error using rsync with curlftpfs rsync:
writefd_unbuffered failed
> rsync over ftp is a rather unique approach, and is unlikely to be > efficient as the whole file is first downloaded so rsync can compare
> the files. My understanding, or should that be hope was that it was able to do a directory comparison just by getting a directory listing and not the files themselves. The directories mapped by curl are navigable and I can do listings on them without downloading the files. Maybe I can achieve this with the right switches to rsync.
> A well tested approach is to use rsync over ssh to the remote server. That would be well documented and far too easy. :-)
> Can you run sshd on the remote server? I don't think Servage will give me a shell.
