[ale] Good tool for transferring directory tree to ftp?

[Jim Popovitch]

Ben Coleman wrote:
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> I've probably blanked on something obvious here, but what's a good tool for
> transferring a directory tree from the local hard drive to an ftp site?  As
> in, I want to maintain a yum repository locally and push the whole thing up to
> a web site via ftp when I make changes.  Googling for ftp mirroring software
> produces lots of software for going the other way - pulling a remote directory
> tree onto the local hard disk - but so far I haven't found something good for
> local-to-remote.  What am I missing?

One of these should do:
lftp, mirror, fmirror, ftpmirror.

I've used both lftp and mirror succesfully for exactly what you are 
wanting.  As others have indicated ssh + rsync is more secure, albeit 
slower, but they nor I know the network between yours hosts or whether 
security is even a cause for concern.

hth,

-Jim P.