[LUGSB] Question about FTP.

[JST]

Hey everyone.  I have what should be a basic question about using FTP.

So I finally have a good part of my rackmount server up and running.
SSHD runs, and so I use it remotely all and well.  Now this new server
has nothing on it except the OS and apps (Just 900MB!) and I want to
pull down everything from a laptop, which runs an ftp server.  I can ftp
into that system just fine from my server, but I don't know a simple way
to grab everything from the ftp server recursively and preserve the same
file heirarchy.  Does the built in standard ftp tool allow for this or
do I have to use something else to grab everything off of a remote
server?  mget doesn't seem up to the task.

Now, using a nice gui ftp client this would be easy, but I just don't
know the command line way of doing things.  Another way to do it would
be to set up an FTP server on my server, and upload everything from my
laptop.  Sadly I am having trouble setting it up.  I'm using proftpd...
I'm sure I will get that part up and running eventually.

Any input would be appreciated.