script to set up dir mirroring with lftp

lftp mirror

## http://serverfault.com/a/106365
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## As written by esel
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## lftp is very good tool.
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## I suggest you to parametrize the script, and make use of the
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## exclude-glob
##   options, that excludes filenames using the glob feature (*,? ..) of your shell:

#!/bin/bash    
HOST="your.ftp.host.dom"
USER="username"
PASS="password"
LCD="/path/of/your/local/dir"
RCD="/path/of/your/remote/dir"
lftp -c "set ftp:list-options -a;
open ftp://$USER:$PASS@$HOST; 
lcd $LCD;
cd $RCD;
mirror --reverse \
       --delete \
       --verbose \
       --exclude-glob a-dir-to-exclude/ \
       --exclude-glob a-file-to-exclude \
       --exclude-glob a-file-group-to-exclude* \
       --exclude-glob other-files-to-esclude"