Re: Refreshing a mirror throws 'Cannot write to .... (Is a directory)' error, when the directory is alreary downloaded

[Boris Behrens]

Am Di., 26. Nov. 2019 um 11:30 Uhr schrieb Tim Rühsen <address@hidden>:
> If you mirror into an existing directory, you normally only want to
> update changes files. Like keeping the server's and your copy in sync.
>
Ah ok, that is not what I want.

> If wget now creates .<N> files each time you sync, the files will stuff
> up - even if they didn't change on the server. This is normally not what
> a user wants. So, what do *you* exactly want ?
>
As I expect that the files do not change, but that there will be added
more files I would like to just download the files that are not
present.
Downloading changed (in this case indicated by a timestamp from the
web server) files would be nice but no need for me.

> Maybe I was wrong with --clobber, another try would be --no-timestamping
> after --mirror.
Already did this in the first tests.
Here are the options I already tried:
WGETOPTIONS='--mirror --no-parent -R "index.html*"
--no-host-directories --cut-dirs=1'
WGETOPTIONS='--mirror --timestamp --recursive --no-parent -R
"index.html*" --no-host-directories --cut-dirs=1'
WGETOPTIONS='--mirror --no-parent -R "index.html"
--no-host-directories --cut-dirs=1 --no-clobber'
WGETOPTIONS='--mirror --no-parent -R "index.html"
--no-host-directories --cut-dirs=1'
WGETOPTIONS='--mirror --no-parent -R "index.html*"
--no-host-directories --cut-dirs=1'
WGETOPTIONS='--mirror --no-parent -x -R "index.html"
--no-host-directories --cut-dirs=1'
WGETOPTIONS='--mirror --no-parent -x -R "index.html*"
--no-host-directories --cut-dirs=1'
WGETOPTIONS='--no-host-directories --cut-dirs=1 -N -r'
WGETOPTIONS='--no-parent --no-host-directories --cut-dirs=1 -N -r -c -l inf'
WGETOPTIONS='--no-parent -R "index.html" --no-host-directories
--cut-dirs=1 --no-clobber -N'
WGETOPTIONS='--no-parent -R "index.html" --no-host-directories
--cut-dirs=1 --no-clobber'
WGETOPTIONS='--no-parent -R "index.html" --no-host-directories
--cut-dirs=1 -N -r'
WGETOPTIONS='-r -N -l inf --no-parent -R "index.html*"
--no-host-directories --cut-dirs=1'
WGETOPTIONS='-r -N -l inf --no-parent -R "index.html*"
--no-host-directories --cut-dirs=1'
WGETOPTIONS='-r -N -l inf --no-parent -R "robots.txt,index.html*"
--no-host-directories --cut-dirs=1'

Cheers
 Boris