[NBLUG/talk] ncftpget: recursive downloads

Mark Street jet at sonic.net
Thu May 20 20:14:55 PDT 2010


Hi Dave,

Take a look at wget, it works well for this sort of stuff.

On 5/20/2010 5:24 PM, Dave Sisley wrote:
> Hey, all:
>
> I'm trying to move a website from one server to another, and went 
> googling for a way to move the files & directories with FTP
>
> The straightforward method would seem to be:
>
> ncftpget -R -v -u "username" remote-server.com /local-directory 
> remote-directory
>
> ...only it doesn't quite work.  As written, the command only 
> downloaded files, but not directories from the server.
>
> If I change add '/*' to the remote directory argument, it downloads 
> some, but not all, of the subdirectories.
>
> Anybody out there know why this doesn't work?  Data transfer limits?  
> Timeouts?  Goblins?
>
> I will be grateful for any clues.
>
> -dave.
>




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