FTP all folders from win CD to HP-UX 11.31 folder

[Joe Milici]

My DVD drive on my HP-UX server died and I need to install some software. I have a CD with the programs but there are many subfolders. How can I ftp all of these files including the subfolders onto the Unix server?

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

You really can't ftp sub folders effectively

mput does all the files in the directly but it will take some time to get the job done and I've never tried it on sub folders.

You could stick the windows CD in the Unix box and do a samba or cifs or vfat or cdfs mount on it and get the data off directly.

Or winzip the CD and send up a single fine and then use gzip to unzip it.

Lots of ways to skin this cat.

SEP

[Tim Nelson]

To expand on Stevens ideas..

If you are running 11.11 or 11.23 you can create an ISO image from the CD. ftp that to the unix server then use PFS to mount the ISO just like a cd.

http://h20229.www2.hp.com/downloads/iso_format.html?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN

[Steven Schweda · Accepted solution]

Assuming that nothing untoward happens to the
file names, an easy way might be to use some
Zip program on the Windows system to create a
Zip archive there, use FTP to copy that to
the HP-UX system, and extract the files there
using the usual Info-ZIP UnZip program.

http://www.info-zip.org/

If you have more than 2GB of stuff (that is
if you were lying about the "CD" part, and
it's really a DVD more than about half full),
then you can expect some large-file
complications. Otherwise, what could go
wrong?

[Joe Milici]

Ok. If I use pkzip and then gzip. What would the gzip syntax be to keep the folders?

[Joe Milici]

Steven,

I clicked on properties and it shows 496MB used on the cd.

[Steven Schweda]

> You really can't ftp sub folders effectively

Maybe _you_ can't. I often use wget for
recursive FTP transfers, and it often works
just fine.

I assume that it's not suitable in this case,
because it only fetches files, and I assume
that the (unspecified) Windows system here
lacks an FTP server.

> [...] then use gzip to unzip it.

I find that UnZip generally works better
than gzip on Zip archives. According to:

http://winzip.com/wzdifs.htm

[...] WinZip supports all operations on
gzip files except creating new ones.

So, I wouldn't expect it to make a useful
gzip archive of a CD.

> Lots of ways to skin this cat.

Some may even work.

[Steven Schweda]

> What would the gzip syntax be to keep the
> folders?

Good question. That's why I'd use Info-ZIP
UnZip.

Gzip is normally used with "tar" for a good
reason. It's a file compression program, not
a general purpose file archiving and
compression program.

[Joe Milici]

Steven.

I have zipped the files and set the winzip option to keep directoires. Do I just ftp the binary to the unix server and run

unzip dpzip.zip?

[Dennis Handly]

>Do I just ftp the binary to the unix server and run: unzip dpzip.zip?

Yes. Make sure you use binary mode to copy.
You could use "unzip -l dpzip.zip" to see if everything is there.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Yes, just ftp the zipped image up and then unzip on the Unix system.

Still isn't it easier to must mount the CD itself on Unix?

Like I said, lots of ways to skin this cd.

SEP

[piyush mathiya]

Hi Joe,
I have read all replies, It is really very good and surely it will help you to solve the problem, but one one thing which I want to share with you is I also faced the same problem and at that time, I have used another unix box to copy the files, like I have mount that CD to another server and made tar of these files and simply transfer from one to another. If privious answer will not solve your problem then you can use this way. . .

Regards,
Piyush Mathiya

[Steven Schweda]

> My DVD drive on my HP-UX server died [...]

> Still isn't it easier to must mount the CD
> itself on Unix?

You _do_ read these things before answering,
don't you?

[Torsten.]

I would simply use something like this to ftp the files:

http://filezilla-project.org/

[chindi]

hi,
I would go for core-ftp lite software....

[Nyck_1]

WINscp is pretty good for this kinda situation

[Joe Milici]

Unfortunalte;y I do not have unzip on my server. I saw GZIP was also recommended. Is there a way to test this command before executing?

[Torsten.]

Look in /usr/contrib/bin what you have.

Is gunzip there?

Anyway, I would prefer to use a ftp client ...

[Joe Milici]

Yes I have gunzip. Keep in mind I have zipped up the CD using winzip and have ftp'd the binary to the server. It has a .zip extension. I am trying to unzip so I can run the installer.

[Tim Nelson]

Don't forget to take a couple seconds and award points for all the time and efforts..Just use the pull down next to each response and pick a number. Then click submit.

Clicking on your name will also lead you to all past posts that could use some point assignment.

[Steven Schweda]

> Unfortunalte;y I do not have unzip on my
> server.

That should be a pretty easy-to-solve
problem. As mentioned earlier, source kits
may be found at:

http://www.info-zip.org/

Google can normally find HP-UX binary kits
pretty easily in the usual places, like:

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Misc/unzip-5.52/
http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Misc/zip-3.0/

[Nyck_1]

you can get unzip from here also:-

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Misc/unzip-5.52/

[SKR_1]

There is an leach ftp software with which you can ftp all folders from windows to UNIX server.

Thanks

SKR

[Joe Milici]

Thanks to all