[LUGSB] Question about FTP.

[Barry Levin]

If the laptop has ssh, I believe you can scp recursively.

scp -r user at ip:/stuff/to/copy /path/where/you/wanna/put/it

On 3/3/07, JST <chozar at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
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