ftp:// error

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

On Fri, 2005-12-02 18:25:37 +0100, Marten Lehmann <lehmann at cnm.de> wrote:
> from a server where neither a rsync daemon nor ssh is running I'm trying 
> to backup the whole data with ftp. So my idea was to call rsync like this:
> 
> rsync -v -a 'ftp://1.2.3.4/' my_folder

Do you really expect a program implementing the RSYNC protocol to talk
to a machine which has some software running speaking the FTP
protocol?

This won't fly...  You need to use a FTP client is a FTP server is
installed.

MfG, JBG

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