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From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>
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Subject: Re: ftp a whole tree?
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chas wrote:
> 
> I used to use mget (in non-interactive mode) to
> ftp a directory and its contents but it required having
> the subdirectory structure in place (a pain in the butt).
> Nowadays I just tar the directory and ftp the tarball.
> It's much faster and more reliable.
> 
> on the source machine :
> tar cvf mytarball.tar myparentdirectory
> 
> ftp from one machine to the other :
> ftp the tarball (mytarball.tar) to the other machine
> 
> on the destination machine :
> then tar -xvf mytar.tar on the destination machine.
> 
> nice b/c it preserves the ownerships on files etc.
> apologies if you already knew all this. of course, if
> you only have ftp access then mget is the only way.
> 
> chas

Take a look at wget in the ports collection. Lets you grab complete
hierarchies of http/ftp stuff...

> 
> >
[snip]

Nadav

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