I'm using wget
GNU Wget 1.9.1

intensivly for mirroring ftp data for scientific applications
(e.g. satellite data from NASA) but often the data are in an rolling archive using symbolic links. I mentioned that in this case wget retrieve all data in the rolling archive instead of only the new once. This cause a lot of internet traffic ftp the most huge data sets more than once. I'm using the following line in a script called within a cron job.

wget --passive-ftp --retr-symlinks --dont-remove-listing --cut-dirs=4 --mirror ftp://$SITE$RSDIR -o $LLOG --directory-prefix=$LTDIR

This runs on a Solaris 8 box.

Is this a bug or is just my command invoking wget wrong a somethins missing. I couldn't find any other options within the help.

Thank you very much in advance.

Anton

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