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Re: [LUG] ftp backup

 

Robin Cornelius wrote:
> Simon Waters wrote:

>> 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.

AFAIR wget can handle ftp as well

>> 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.

I've hacked proftpd a fair bit for various purposes.  I don't think it's
any more unreliable than any other ftp daemon.  Certainly it was quite
happy on a site shifting terabytes of data a month.

James

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