Re: Recursive FTP upload tool?

On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 13:13:21 -0500
 Joe Auty <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


On Dec 30, 2005, at 1:03 PM, JK wrote:

On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 12:10:07 +0100 (CET)
 Alexander Pohoyda <alexander.pohoyda@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi folks,
I'm looking for a command-line tool to recursively upload all changed
files/directories to my homepage server via FTP. Is there anything
better than wput for this task? 

'rsync' is perfectly suited for this and much much better than ftp.

''man rsync''



It is, but I believe it only works over SSH. Perhaps it can be configured to work over FTP, I've never tried (no reason to).


Can you use ssh? I personally never use nor enable FTP anymore these days given the massive number of script kiddies and serious hackers out there. Regular FTP is just too insecure ( I don't know about more recent ''secure'' FTP ). Just use ssh and if it's not available on the other end beg/tell/require them to enable it

I get easily over 1000 attempts per day from hackers trying to break into my poor little colo'd server...

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