[NBLUG/talk] ncftpget: recursive downloads

Sean seanvanco at gmail.com
Thu May 20 17:53:06 PDT 2010


I'm assuming that you can't use scp for some reason? That's my typical
way of moving directories.

Regarding ncftpget, have you tried the -d flag to output debugging
data to a file? It may tell you why it can't grab the directories.


Sean


On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Dave Sisley <dsisley at sonic.net> 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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>
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