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Simon Waters wrote: > Robin Cornelius wrote: >> mirror seems to do the job nicely and has copied the site off for me now. > > It is not an easy name to search for(!), you have a link? Yea "apt-cache search ftp" produced a nice list which by trial and error mirror proved to do the job. I think the initial problem was too much choice and too much time spent fighting sitecopy and wasting too much time in google. > > ncftp is the usual recommendation I've made before, but it isn't pretty. > Will bare in mind for next time > wget can do a mirror of someone else's site over http, I've used that > for ripping information out of various sites, as once it is local, it is > far quicker to hack with grep and friends. I need the actual code, its all php files etc and lots of random stuff that I am not sure you can fetch by http. Once i have control things can be sorted out properly. > > FTP should die -- it has a lot of issues as a protocol, usually okay > with some of the good free software ftp servers, but historically ftp > has been very bad on error reporting. You sure there are no other options? > Yea its crap, but the server was running proftpd, i think it mostly might be incompetence of the hosting company causing the issues. -- Robin Cornelius http://www.byteme.org.uk
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