ftp: Download folders and contents

plisken · 02-19-2002, 03:35 PM

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

isajera · 02-19-2002, 06:21 PM

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

Mik · 02-20-2002, 03:30 AM

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.

jharris · 02-20-2002, 03:30 AM

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

cheers

Jamie...