Server to Server Copy using WGET with FTP¶

Task¶

Let’s say you want to move an installation to your new server where you have shell access but on the other server you can only do FTP. What can you do?

Wget helps¶

Here is one solution: The Linux/Gnu tool wget is probably available. And wget does FTP just fine.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wget
• http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wget

Here is an example:

$ cd ~
$ mkdir incoming
$ cd incoming
$ wget -r -l0 -c -nH -N -nv ftp://user:password@www.sourcedomain.tld/html/*

In this example you go to your home directory and create a subfolder “incoming”, you then go to “incoming” and issue the “wget” command. It will fetch all files from the source server - in this case starting in the FTP folder /html.

Parameters¶

What they mean:

Conclusion¶

This wget method isn’t as fast and powerful as rsync but may come in handy from time to time and can definitely be useful.

Have fun!