Recursive FTP

[DanSandberg]

Hi All,

I have a stupid question. I need to upload an entire hierarchy of files, folders within folders, etc.. Everything is located inside this one folder but the "get" command with FTP "can't get non-regular file". How do I get the entire folder and everything inside in a recursive way? get -R didn't work.

Thanks,
Dan

[Nokia]

Try mget instead of get

[aleph]

I'd suggest using lftp (yum install lftp). It is a very flexible FTP client. With its "mirror" command you can download/upload entire directory hierarchies in a few keystrokes.

The "mirror" command by default only does the download. "mirror -R" does the reverse (putting files *to* the server). In lftp, the command "help mirror" tells you whole lots of useful information.

[php1ic]

I've only had experience with transferring between networks, so don't know how different that is to transferring to/from a server, but could you not use "scp -r"

[DanSandberg]

Okay - what I'm actually trying to do is upload webpage information from my mac to the linux server hosting the webpage. I ssh into the server and then sftp back to my own computer. Mget produced the same error as get, 'could not open non-regular file'. scp -r isn't a valid command and for some reason yum isn't recognized either.

Could I compress the folder into a single object, ftp it to the linux server, and then decompress it? If so, does anyone know what compression software I'd need for this (a free program would be ideal)

[Nokia]

Take a good look at

man scp

before trying anything else

Your answer is:

 scp -2vr local/folder user@linuxserver.com:

That should be all

P.S. Take a look at

su
yum install sshfs
man sshfs

[php1ic]

Sorry, I thought scp was a standard command. I'm also under the impression that tar is so sorry in advance if it isn't recognised.

tar cvzf dir.tar.gz dir/

will compress and tar the directory into a single file (dir.tar.gz) which you can transfer

tar xvzf dir.tar.gz

should then uncompress and untar the file.

[Nokia]

Originally Posted by php1ic

Sorry, I thought scp was a standard command. I'm also under the impression that tar is so sorry in advance if it isn't recognised.

tar cvzf dir.tar.gz dir/

will compress and tar the directory into a single file (dir.tar.gz) which you can transfer

tar xvzf dir.tar.gz

should then uncompress and untar the file.

Right. However, it's not needed in this case.

scp -2vrC

will enable compression when transfering files. There's no point in creating a local archive and decompressing it remotely. (Wonder if he's allowed to do that )

[DanSandberg]

Hi great. scp seems to be the answer, although tar would work too. Thanks alot!