"Philip Iezzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd like to mirror a whole server with the whole configuration and > all data. Is there some tool to do this?
Yes and no. If you're speaking of, say, simply grabbing files off of another machine and mirroring that data, yes, absolutly - this is common. I personally like wget. But since you mention "a whole server with the whole configuration and data", I wonder exactly what you mean by this. Let me explain: If you're using the term "server" in the sense of "a computer I have complete access to that we have assigned to the function of an (FTP | HTTP | NAME) Server" then yes. OTOH, if you mean, "Some person's server somewhere", perhaps, if you know the people running it. It is a security risk to open up configuration data to just anyone regarding, say, an HTTP Server or FTP Server. Also, it would not be good if an HTTP server was allowing just anyone to read the raw scripts (such as php, asp, or perl). The best method I've used to mirror another machine is via FTP using wget. The FTP Server on the "machine to be mirrored" must allow normal users to log in and that normal (real) user must have read access to all the files you want to mirror. wget logs in as that specific user and copies the file(s) it needs to mirror the other machine. wget has an option for mirroring. You could easily make a cron job to do this hourly, daily, weekly, etc. Elizabeth
