Oliver Fromme wrote:
O. Hartmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> I run into a problem I can not solve. I need to fetch a whole directory
> tree from a public remote site. The top level directory and its
> subdirectories are accessible via ftp:// and http:// so I tried fetch,
> but fetch does only retrieve data on file basis and does not copy a
> whole directory tree recursively. The remote site does not offer
> sftp/sshd for that purpose.
>
> Is there a simple way to perform such a task with FreeBSD's own tools (I
> try to avoid installing 'wget' and sibblings)? I need to keep it simple,
> task should be performed via cronjob.
I'm afraid you can't do that with FreeBSD base tools.
An alternative to wget would be "omi" (ports/ftp/omi)
which is a simple FTP mirroring tool, written in C
without any dependencies. Usage is simple:
$ omi -s server.name.com -r /remote/dir -l ./local/dir
Note that, by default, it tries to synchronize the local
dir perfectly, i.e. if the remote dir is empty, it will
wipe out the local dir. (The option "-P 0" will prevent
omi from removing anything.)
Best regards
Oliver
Thanks for so much answers.
I tried 'omi' but I find that the tool does not travers deeper into a
dir than level one, so subdirs seem to be left out. I will try wget,
although this tool would not be the first choice.
Thanks,
Oliver
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