12-13-2006
Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
Look for a recursive option to mget in it's manpage. I would, but I don't have mget.
mget ist not a command but a subcommand of ftp, therefore you probably "have" it (as long as you didn't purge the ftp command from your system) and it neither has a manpage nor a recursive-option.
The bad news is there is no way to do it with ftp in a simple or straightforward way. ftp was designed as an interactive program and hence is simply not built with your purpose in mind. It may be possible - with finite, but probably pretty high amount of work to put in - to script a solution around ftp, but i wouldn't suggest doing that.
What you can do, though, is to use r-commands (rcp) or their securized counterparts (scp, ...). Look at the manpages of rcp and/or scp and decide for yourself if they fit your purpose.
Another way is to create a tar-file of the subtree and use ftp to transfer it from one machine to another, then use tar to extract it there. While this is a simple and straightforward solution it needs some (depending on the amount of data you want to transfer) and maybe even a lot of disk space. Roughly the size of the tar archive is as big as the single files summed up (check with du to get a picture, if you want to transfer one subtree /transfer/this then issue
du -ks /transfer/this
to get the number of kbytes. The same number you will need again for the tar archive.
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bup-ftp
bup-ftp(1) General Commands Manual bup-ftp(1)
NAME
bup-ftp - ftp-like client for navigating bup repositories
SYNOPSIS
bup ftp
DESCRIPTION
bup ftp is a command-line tool for navigating bup repositories. It has commands similar to the Unix ftp(1) command. The file hierarchy is
the same as that shown by bup-fuse(1) and bup-ls(1).
Note: if your system has the python-readline library installed, you can use the <tab> key to complete filenames while navigating your
backup data. This will save you a lot of typing.
COMMANDS
The following commands are available inside bup ftp:
ls [-s] [-a] [path]
print the contents of a directory. If no path argument is given, the current directory's contents are listed. If -a is given, also
include hidden files (files which start with a . character). If -s is given, each file is displayed with its hash from the bup ar-
chive to its left.
cd dirname
change to a different working directory
pwd print the path of the current working directory
cat filenames...
print the contents of one or more files to stdout
get filename localname
download the contents of filename and save it to disk as localname. If localname is omitted, uses filename as the local name.
mget filenames...
download the contents of the given filenames and stores them to disk under the same names. The filenames may contain Unix filename
globs (*, ?, etc.)
help print a list of available commands
quit exit the bup ftp client
EXAMPLE
$ bup ftp
bup> ls
mybackup/ yourbackup/
bup> cd mybackup/
bup> ls
2010-02-05-185507@ 2010-02-05-185508@ latest@
bup> cd latest/
bup> ls
(...etc...)
bup> get myfile
Saving 'myfile'
bup> quit
SEE ALSO
bup-fuse(1), bup-ls(1), bup-save(1), bup-restore(1)
BUP
Part of the bup(1) suite.
AUTHORS
Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>.
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