ftp: Download folders and contents
 

I'm creating a small cron job which will download the entire contents of my web folder on a web server.

I can successfully connect and log in with FTP but I'm struggeling to download all files and folders.

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks

using the get command only retrieves one file at a time - you'll need to use mget to get an entire directory.

Go to http://www.ncftp.com and download the ftp client. It allows you to schedule batch jobs of files to download in the background. You can easily use cron to schedule the downloads.

wget will probably also be your friend here. Or Perl's rather nice FTP module.

cheers

Jamie...