Comments on: Linux: Download all file from ftp server recursively

By: vamsi

vamsi — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 10:09:02 +0000

Thank You Solved my problem

By: jbn

jbn — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 09:51:15 +0000

Worked great. Except for it not doing recursion deep enough.

Currently trying
wget -m ftp://username:password@ftp.server.com/*
as it supposedly sets the correct options.

By: k4m1

k4m1 — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 12:33:07 +0000

hehe wget rules again.
So clean and cool solution, thanks a lot :)
-q for quiet mode.

By: Karl

Karl — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 10:07:11 +0000

Much better, quicker and easier method Brad, cheers!

By: Brad Griffith

Brad Griffith — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:48:24 +0000

A method that has worked much better for me is:

wget -r ftp://username:password@ftp.server.com/*

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 20 May 2010 23:14:04 +0000

Actually, I am also missing a few, but not all of the sub directories…

At this point, I’m now doing this by hand. Any ideas as to why this doesn’t work would be welcome.
-dave.

By: daveX99

daveX99 — Thu, 20 May 2010 18:25:23 +0000

Hey – I was initially having trouble. Running the command as written, it would download any files in the remote directory, but not the subdirectories.

I had to add an asterisk to the line, so it looked like this (I ran it from the directory into which I wanted the files & directories to go):
$ ncftpget -R -v -u “username” http://ftp.remote_server.com ./ /Remote_Directory/*

Not sure why, but it did the trick.

-dave.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 04:03:00 +0000

Seems like it dosn’t download all files, I just did this on one of my sites (-T command) and there where 3 directories that wasn’t downloaded.. had to download them one by one.. is there a limit to how many files/directories it will get?

By: corky

corky — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 09:09:44 +0000

This is great…except where the directory on the ftp happens to have a [ or ] character in it. A file in a directory your getting can have those characters, just not the directory you specify in the command :(
ncftpget will return the error “remote directory listing failed.”

Really unfortunate, this was *almost* the perfect solution for me.

By: Ravi

Ravi — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 09:25:27 +0000

Hi Vivek,
Very nice and encourageing blog you have, it’s inspire to all of us, realy it works in all manner, I hope you could be feeling the same

Cheers
Go opensource……

Ravi Bhure

By: computerjan

computerjan — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:04:10 +0000

Very useful guide !
I´m using it for my FTP-Server

By: nasser

nasser — Wed, 13 May 2009 20:58:33 +0000

very nice guide.

I install ncftp client in CentOS and its work.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:09:46 +0000

Thanks! needed to backup my site, and didn’t want to spend too much time writing a script…

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:27:30 +0000

Great. I’ve been trying to make a full copy of my ftp site for a backup.

By: haakondahl

haakondahl — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:30:34 +0000

This is GREAT! I have been struggling with transferring files from multiple partitions on one machine to multiple partitions on another, so NFS doesn’t get it done no matter which isthe server of client. I am now using ProFTPd as a server, and ncftp as a client, and I am watching the partitions fill up as I expected, rather than as NFS and cp -vurf were getting it done.
Thank you for posting this fantastic guide!