NAME

Net::DownloadMirror - Perl extension for mirroring a remote location via FTP to the local directory

SYNOPSIS

  use Net::DownloadMirror;
  my $um = Net::DownloadMirror->new(
        ftpserver               => "my_ftp.hostname.com",
        usr             => "my_ftp_usr_name",
        pass            => "my_ftp_password",
        );
 $um->Update();
 
 or more detailed
 my $md = Net::DownloadMirror->new(
        ftpserver               => "my_ftp.hostname.com",
        usr             => "my_ftp_usr_name",
        pass            => "my_ftp_password",
        localdir                => "home/nameA/homepageA",
        remotedir       => "public",
        debug           => 1 # 1 for yes, 0 for no
        timeout         => 60 # default 30
        delete          => "enable" # default "disabled"
        connection      => $ftp_object, # default undef
# "exclusions" default empty arrayreferences []
        exclusions      => ["private.txt", "Thumbs.db", ".sys", ".log"],
# "subset" default empty arrayreferences [ ]
        subset          => [".txt, ".pl", ".html", "htm", ".gif", ".jpg", ".css", ".js", ".png"],
# or substrings in pathnames
#       exclusions      => ["psw", "forbidden_code"]
#       subset          => ["name", "my_files"]
# or you can use regular expressions
#       exclusinos      => [qr/SYSTEM/i, $regex]
#       subset          => {qr/(?i:HOME)(?i:PAGE)?/, $regex]
        file_name       => "modified_times",
        );
 $um->Update();

DESCRIPTION

This module is for mirroring a remote location to a local directory via FTP. For example websites, documentations or developmentstuff which ones were uploaded or changed in the net. It is not developt for mirroring large archivs. But there are not in principle any limits.

Constructor and Initialization

(object)new(options) Net::DownloadMirror is a derived class from Net::MirrorDir. For detailed information about constructor or options read the documentation of Net::MirrorDir.

methods

(1)_Init(%arg) This function is called by the constructor. You do not need to call this function by yourself.

(1|0)Update(void) Call this function for mirroring automatically, recommended!!!

(ref_hash_modified_files)CheckIfModified(ref_list_local_files) Takes a hashreference of remoe filenames to compare the last modification time, which is stored in a file, named by the attribute "filename", while uploading. Returns a reference of a list.

(1|0)StoreFiles(ref_array_paths) Takes a arrayreference of remote-paths to download via FTP.

(1|0)MakeDirs(ref_array_paths) Takes a arrayreference of directories to make in the local directory.

(1|0)DeleteFiles(ref_array_paths) Takes a arrayreference of files to delete in the local directory.

(1|0)RemoveDirs(ref_array_paths) Takes a arrayreference of directories to remove in the local directory.

optional optiones

file_name The name of the file in which the last modified times will be stored. default = "lastmodified_remote"

 =item delete
 When directories or files are to be deleted = "enable"
 default = "disabled"

EXPORT

None by default.

SEE ALSO

Net::MirrorDir Net::UploadMirror Tk::Mirror http://www.planet-interkom.de/t.knorr/index.html

FILES

Net::MirrorDir Storable File::Basename File::Path

BUGS

Maybe you'll find some. Let me know.

REPORTING BUGS

When reporting bugs/problems please include as much information as possible.

AUTHOR

Torsten Knorr, <create-soft@tiscali.de>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2006 - 2008 by Torsten Knorr

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.9.2 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.