[EMBOSS] Using Mirror and SynCron to update databases

[Nancy Yu]

Hi,

I'm having problems with Mirror and I don't know where else to get help. I
installed Mirror according to instructions in SynCron (after reading README
from ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/embl/new), and tested it with the "mirror -n"
option.  I find that with some ftp sites it connects just fine; for other
sites Mirror cannot get a list of the target remote directory content and
times out; and other times it lists the target directory as empty, when that
directory actually has files in it.

Does this have to do with the setting of my mirror.defaults file or with the
different ftp sites?? Do people use other scripts/programs to keep their local
databases updated?  Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. 

Nancy Yu


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