meephead

Hi, I just signed up for the "aeon1: shared" hosting package, and I am interested in using my account as a mirror for free game mods. The problem is that there is nothing I'm aware of that would allow me to do so. Rsync isn't installed and isn't available through fantastico either and trying to do a simple test through the cron daemon showed that I do not have permission to execute wget.

If it's possible to be permitted to use any of the above, or if there is some other way to automatically download new content from another server, please let me know.

twirp

If the other server has cPanel, you could do a cron job that sends the back-up to the Surpass account (via FTP), then have another cron job to extract it I guess...
Or you could have a PHP script that simly downloads all the files from another server via FTP, but depending on how often, and how large the files are, this could use the CPU alot...

meephead

I don't own the other server or have any control over it, so the cpanel idea wont work. Also it's not a backup, it's a lot of separate little player created files for old games. I'd assume the average file size is under 1mb (although the file sizes vary a lot), and the whole thing would take up about 5-6gb. I'd also need to sync the archive on a daily basis. So like you said, I probably don't want to be doing this through php (then again this is just an assumption).

Wget should be able to do this pretty efficiently, at least my friend who has a shared account on 1and1 can mirror the archive without any problems.

Thanks though, if worse comes to worst I'll do some local php/ftp tests and see how those work.