[NBLUG/talk] ncftpget: recursive downloads

[Dave Sisley]

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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Dave Sisley
dsisley at sonic.net
roth-sisley.net