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Problems with ftp syncing (issue with untarring)

I'm trying to make a file sync setup. I was getting really bewildered trying to upload files that weren't in the currect directory, so I broke it up like this.

Code:

cd ~/Desktop

find . -type f -mtime -1 | xargs tar -rf find.tar

Which would make a simple tar of everything recently modified.

Code:

#!/bin/bash



#Prelude

STUFF=$*

CURDIR=`pwd`

BASENAME=$(basename $CURDIR)

echo $BASENAME

cd $HOME/Desktop

HOST='****'

USER='****'

PASSWD='****'



ftp -n -v $HOST << EOT

ascii

user $USER $PASSWD

prompt

cd me_ftp

mput find.tar

bye

EOT

This works, except I see no way to untar the files on the server.

Why not run a script on the server that ftps to your machine and gets the tar then untars it ?

The server I'm using doesn't have ssh access.
If there's not a way to untar through ftp, can you recommend any syncing tutorials? I was getting weird issues doing files in directories when I made it run file-by-file.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Muscovy (Post 3904842)

I'm trying to make a file sync setup.

Is there some reason you aren't using "rsync"?