how to use wget

blizunt7 · 04-25-2007, 07:23 PM

Hey all,
Im trying to get to an ftp site of mine, and ftp that data to a new system. I have a directory with more than 5 nested directories, and more directories in them. I tried to use wget, but it didnt transfer all the directories, i tried:

wget -r --user=USER --password=PASS ftp://ftp.address.com/

Is this correct??
Do i need to specify the local directory?

Thanks in advance!!!

fukawi2 · 04-25-2007, 07:40 PM

In theory (I love theory!), that should work... It will default to the current working directory to save the retrieved files.

What does that command do? Perhaps adding a * on to the end? ie:
wget -r --user=USER --password=PASS ftp://ftp.address.com/*

Have you tried rsync instead? Much faster

blizunt7 · 04-25-2007, 07:43 PM

have not tried rsync, never used it, how is that different? Can i use it to retried from my system, recursivly a directory?

blizunt7 · 04-25-2007, 07:54 PM

so rsync can copy from a machine and directory. The problem is I need to copy directory contents from a Windows Server. Can specify that directory, rsync will not work for this purposes.

Any other ideas?

fukawi2 · 04-25-2007, 07:56 PM

Does the host have the rsync daemon installed and running?

If not, you can do it over SSH but I'm not familiar with the actual command to do it that way. It's pretty simple AFAIK, just never had the need to do it

There are lots of tutorials out there:
Using Rsync and SSH: http://www.jdmz.net/ssh/
A Tutorial: http://everythinglinux.org/rsync/

fukawi2 · 04-25-2007, 07:57 PM

Ah ok, sorry - I was under the impression they were both Linux hosts.

Did you try with the * on the end?

blizunt7 · 04-25-2007, 08:04 PM

well ftp from the windows box, will also not do recursively.

So that stinks,