Matthias, there are many recipes for sync, it all amounts on how perfect you want your sync to be. Changed files probably have a different timestamp and different size then their server siblings, so one way is to compare both size and timestamp. You can do that by FTP by using the libURLFtpCommand() call. The SIZE ftp command should return the size of the file in bytes, not all servers understand this command, you need to try. As for finding the date, this is a little trickier. I don't recall FTP having a command to return the time stamp of the file, some FTP servers will return the time stamps as a part of the LIST command but parsing those is not trivial as they differ from system to system, mostly they look like the output of 'ls -l' on a unix machine.
If anyone here remmebers how to the get a date from a file using the command line, you can try to pass that command to the FTP server using the SITE command which is like the shell() call used in rev, for example, FTP has not way to set file attributes but with something like: libURLFTPCommand("SITE CHMOD 755 myfile", "ftp.example.com") you can set the attributes to 755. I don't know if SITE will accept anything, this could be a security risk as someone could issue 'SITE killall ftpd' and if he has the correct perms he would shutdown the server. If I can tell you a simple advise, I'd go like this, I'd make a file that is an index and holds metadata information about the files, this file would contain the size and modification dates for the files, so to sync, I'd download this index file and compare it with the local copy. When syncing, I'd generate a new up to date index file and upload it. Much easier than handling SITE, SIZE and the like. andre On 12/27/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > i have to sync a local folder with about 5000 files with a ftp folder. > If a new file is in the local folder or if a file has changed it has to be > uploaded to the ftp folder. > > Okay, if i only had to upload new files, i could compare the files of the > local and the remote folder. But i also have to upload changed files. > Problem here is, that files stored on the ftp shows their modification > date/time with 1 hour difference. > > Has anyone done such sync things already? > > Matthias > > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > -- http://www.andregarzia.com All We Do Is Code. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution