topic Robocopy from ftp server in Windows Server 2003

Robocopy from ftp server

CA1455689 — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 02:57:58 GMT

Hi Guys

I need to use Robocopy to copy folders and files from an ftp server like this:
robocopy "ftp://10.1.3.216/testingshare" "C:\Temp" /E /Z /V /TEE /LOG+:"C:\Documents and Settings\terencen\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\RoboCopy\RoboCopy\bin\Debug\Robocopy\Logs\Log.txt" /R:10 /W:30

this bovoisly generates an error due to the ftp server as a source. Anybody know if it's possible to do something like this. I've also tried mapping an ftp server to a network drive using a utility called netdrive. this way I am able to supply "Z:\" as the source for robocopy and it works but it's way too slow. Please help.

Re: Robocopy from ftp server

Dan Robinson_4 — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 19:37:16 GMT

You cant talk FTP via Robocopy, but FTP.exe has its own scripting language.

Type ftp -? at a command prompt to see more details about the -s option.

Basically you just stick all the FTP commands in a text file line by line and then FTP will process them just as if you typed them.

You can perhaps use this to create a local copy of all the data and then use robocopy to do the rest.

I'm just not sure if FTP can do the /s (/E in your script) type stuff.

I take it you dont have CIFS access to the remote machine?

-Dan

Re: Robocopy from ftp server

Court Campbell — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:53:33 GMT

You might try downloading a windows port of wget or curl.