Re: [Bug-wget] wget no-clobber operation

[Micah Cowan]

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Flees, Erik wrote:
> I am trying to mirror a web site and would like to keep backup copies of the 
> files that get changed.
> Like the no-clobber process file.txt will become file.1 then file.2 and so on 
> as new versions of the file get mirrored from the web site.
> Using -N -r or even -m all cause problems because they do not preserve the 
> original file. If I use any of these options the newer remote file overwrites 
> the older local file.
> I want to keep the older local file and the newer remote file.
> Is there any way to do this?

You could provide the -nd option (which disables the hierarchy of
directories, and may have other undesirable side effects). There's
currently no other way to combine -r/-m with what you intend by -nc.

- -N is designed to be mutually exclusive with -nc.

- --
HTH,
Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer.
Maintainer of GNU Wget and GNU Teseq
http://micah.cowan.name/
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