How do I properly set wget to download only new files?

Question

Let's say there's an url, let's call it http://www.some-url.com/folder/

This location has directory listing enabled, therefore I can do this:

wget -r -np http://www.some-url.com/folder/

To download all its contents with all the files and subfolders and their files.

Now, what should I do if I want to repeat this process again, a month later, and I don't want to download everything again, only add new/changed files?

Answer 1

did you read this ? http://www.editcorp.com/Personal/Lars_Appel/wget/wget_5.html

"Several days later, you would like Wget to check if the remote file has changed, and download it if it has."

wget -N http://www.some-url.com/folder/

Try this.