FTP diff via script?

[Paul Howarth]

Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On 6/8/06, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 02:38 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>> > Can anyone suggest how I would go about downloading an entire FTP tree
>> > (the easy part) then basically making diffs of it every day?
>> >
>> > I can do the scripting, just not sure what tools are out there, or
>> > what search terms to use.
>>
>> What exactly do you mean by "making diffs" of it?
>>
>> Paul.
>>
> 
> Well, either download only the changes from the last time (to a
> different folder path) , or, something such as what rdiff-backup does.

lftp has quite a powerful FTP site mirror facility; worth a look.

Paul.