DOS FTP question!!!

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

Hi,
I like to backup my PC onto CDROM at least
once a month... windows say no more, now
the cd recording machine at work is windows
based and has no ftp client other than ftp
from command... seeing as ftp is standard
enough an ignoring the dos ascii thing,
you should perhaps know how to do a directory
recurse get from within ftp?

ie:
similar to a
ftp>mget -R something-dir
rather than
ftp>!mkdir something-dir
ftp>cd something-dir
ftp>prompt
ftp>bin
ftp>mget *
ftp>!mkdir level2
ftp>cd level2
ftp>mget *
etc..

PS: I give points during working hours!!!!!!
mon to fri!!

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi Bill

Sorry but a recursive is not allowed, the only way is to cd to each dir and do a mget/mput *.

Can you not install somthing like cuteftp on that machine?

HTH

Paula

[Kevin Ernst]

Bill:

Or, if command-line happens to be your preference, get the Win32 binary of NcFTP, which is excellent. ( http://www.ncftp.com/ncftp/ ) It supports tab-completion (which you're familiar with if you've ever used the 'bash' shell), bookmarks, resuming of failed/interrupted downloads, and (of course) recursion of subdirectories

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi Kevin
Is you server plastic and extruded, and does it speak to you?

I noticed where you worked ;-)


Paula

[Kofi ARTHIABAH]

Bill:

If I understand you correctly, you want to backup some files from one machine onto another one that has a CDwriter right?

Have you considered using CIFS/9000 to share the filesytem (assuming one is an hpux box) and once shared on the windows box, you can then use the cd writer to back up the mapped drive.

There is lots of threads on using samba/cifs... just hit the search button.

Good luck

[Bruce Regittko_1 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

If you are set on ftp and have some disk space on your pc, you could tar and gzip (or use winzip or whatever) the stuff and then transfer it. I routinely use this trick to backup the stuff on my pc to an account on a Unix box.

Bruce

[Kevin Ernst]

NcFTP is free and open source software, by the way. A precompiled binary for HP-UX is available from the Porting Archive ( http://hpux.cae.wisc.edu ).

I had problems with the full-screen (curses) bookmark editor (ncftpbookmarks) that came with the Porting Archive depot, and had to recompile with ncurses (also available in binary from the Archive), but I was able to do so on a 10.20 system without incident.

[Kevin Ernst]

Paula:

Sadly, no. Just a couple of old, drab D-Classes and a C110. =)