Transferring entire trees thru ftp?

Hi everyone, Im trying to transfer entire directory trees from one server to another using the ftp client on the machines. They are both linux. One is redhat 7.3, the other is redhat 9. The get and mget commands only seem to want to do files, not folders. Is this possible? This would save ALOT of time. Thanks for your help.

Dennis

Hi,

use the 'ncftp' client, included with redhat.

Do a get -r or a put -r. This will do whole trees.

Cheers,

Dirk

Hi, thanks for your reply. I am doing this:

ncftp

open xxx.xxx.xx.xx

But then it tells me login incorrect and sleeping for 20 seconds. Is there something I need to do different with ncftp than with plain ol ftp? Do I need to put the login/pass some where in the 'open' command? Thanks

ncftp -u <username> <host>

All linux commands have 'man' pages, so if you looking for more info about a command, try man <command> (in this case: man ncftp).

Cheers,

Dirk

Thanks man, that helped a bunch. Found the info I needed:

ncftp -u (username) -p (password) xxx.xxx.xx.xx

Then the get -r command works just fine!

Thanks again..