Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 22:44:11 -0500 (CDT) From: Tony Shadwick <tshadwick@goinet.com> To: Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: downloading entire directories Message-ID: <20050521224321.A47072@mail.goinet.com> In-Reply-To: <20050521133758.T48232@zoraida.natserv.net> References: <c04ca341050520141040bd0c27@mail.gmail.com> <20050521133758.T48232@zoraida.natserv.net>
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scp -pr user@remote_host:/path/of/dir/you/want/ /path/you/want/it/stored Tony On Sat, 21 May 2005, Francisco Reyes wrote: > On Fri, 20 May 2005, Tony Shadwick wrote: > >> There are two ways you could do this. The first is like so: > > I believe there may be a third way. > Have not done it in a while, but some FTP servers allow you to specify a tar > file from a directory. > > To be honest I don't recall syntax, but it was something like "get > dirname.tar" and the FTP server would know to prepare a tar of the entire > directory. Don't know which server(s) suppor(ed) this feature though. > > Long run something like rsync or unison are better options though. > Although I think scp can download multiple files, but I don't know if it > recurses. >
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