Mirroring files

Hello all,

My uni assigns everyone an FTP server which I use quite regularly. I use the standard copy and paste to mirror everything that I do on my MBP, on to my FTP space. I use Forklift for this. Im just wondering if there is a way to automate this? For example every half hour my MBP will connect to my FTP, compare the time stamp on the files, and if there is a newer one overwrite it with the new one? Perhaps using Automator??

I am aware that my TimeMachine does this sorta for me, but im thinking worst case scenario. That I either loose, or have my MBP and WD Passport stolen.

Any ideas at all will be appreciated
Thank you

Chris

EDIT: Sorry, I didn't know really know where to post this. I thought this might be perhaps the best place

You can use AppleScript and Rsync to accomplish the backup functionality. You can then use Cron to schedule the script to run at your desired interval.

Applescript & Rsync: Back up blog or FTP directory with AppleScript - Mac OS X Hints
Cron: Mac crontab – Mac OS X startup jobs with crontab, er, launchd « road

These two links give you an idea of how to get started, you'll have to tweak appropriately..

Thanks alot for that!

Struggling with this massively though. Ive done some research and the error I'm getting is a EOF (end of file from what I can understand). Ive done alot of troubleshooting but for someone who knows no AppleScripting its less then easy.
On second thoughts, is this script just for a single file, instead of a whole directory?

Thank you so far!
Chris

The script is going to mirror all the contents of the "blog" directory. Including all subdirectories..

So is the general idea that you have a single directory that contains multiple files/directories that you copy over to the FTP server?

Can you show what your AppleScript looks like so far?

http://www.freeimagehosting.net/vh78r

There we go, does this help? Also, as for the EOF error, that doesn't come up, but as you can see, a whole lot more do!

Thank you for your help so far!

Chris