no, I am running as a root user. There is some issue with lftp, when file
with same name already exist its not able to rename the temp file to actual
file.
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Alexander V. Lukyanov <l...@netis.ru> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 01:30:42PM +0530, akshay gupta wrote:
> > ---> RETR test.txt
> > <--- 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for 'test.txt' (202 bytes).
> > ---- Got EOF on data connection
> > ---- Closing data socket
> > <--- 226 Transfer complete.
>
> So the file cannot be renamed locally, right? Is there a permissions
> problem?
>
> --
> Alexander.
>
> > On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Alexander Lukyanov <lavv...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Can you provide a debug log? Why lftp cannot replace the old file?
> > >
> > > 2014-10-27 10:44 GMT+03:00 akshay gupta <akshaygupta...@gmail.com>:
> > >
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> I am trying to mirror files using lftp, I have tested a use case
> where a
> > >> file at the source machine gets modified but the file name remains the
> > >> same. After mirroring, lftp is unable to replace the old file and also
> > >> leaves a temporary file.
> > >>
> > >> For example. If source have file a.txt and its mirrored successfully
> at
> > >> the destination, now if I update a.txt append some content and save
> it with
> > >> same name. If I run lftp mirror again then its not able to replace the
> > >> existing a.txt but it also leaves the temp file a.txt_transit_
> behind. And
> > >> if i run the mirror multiple times it always downloads the changed
> a.txt, i
> > >> can see this from the lftp logs.
> > >>
> > >> Suggestion: Will it make sense to keep versions of the files as they
> are
> > >> updated at the source. Like if a.txt is changed at source then lftp
> mirror
> > >> will save it as a.txt_{TIMESTAMP}_. Every time a file is updated it
> will be
> > >> saved with a new time stamp. And mirror will consider these file to
> decide
> > >> whether to download or not.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Thanks,
> > >> Akshay
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Alexander.
> > >
>
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