FTP Download Directories Recursively

Ziycon

I have a BAT script that will connect and download all the files in the root directory but I need to recursively download all sub-directories and their files, there could be sub-directories in sub-directories to the a maximum of 15 I'd say.

I know windows native FTP command doesn't support recursive download with mget but can anyone point me to a good script function that will do what I require or even help me out with the code I have already?

@ ECHO OFF
ECHO:
ECHO FTP Backup Script
ECHO =================
ECHO:
SET login_script="c:\...\script.ftp"
for /f "tokens=1-3 delims=/- " %%a in ('date /t') do set XDate=%%a%%b%%c
for /f "tokens=1-2 delims=: " %%a in ('time /t') do set XTime=%%a%%b
CD C:\backups\
IF EXIST %XDate%%XTime% GOTO NODIR
MD %XDate%%XTime%
CD %XDate%%XTime%
FTP -v -i -s:%login_script%

:NODIR

PAUSE

script.ftp

open 127.0.0.1
root
root
cd public_html
binary
mget *.*
disconnect
bye

Ziycon

Anyone have any suggestions on where to go from here?

daymobrew

I don't think that you can do it with native FTP as the ftp script cannot check for dirs.

You could try using a free ftp app e.g. WinSCP. It has scripting facilities and its synchronize command looks promising.

Ziycon

Thanks for this, I have what I require downloading now from winscp, can this be integrated into a windows batch file that is downloading the database?

mwrf

[PHP]wget -r ftp://username:password@<yoursite>/<yourdir&gt;
[/PHP]


wget for windows here:
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm

Ziycon

mwrf wrote: »

[PHP]wget -r ftp://username:password@<yoursite>/<yourdir&gt;
[/PHP]


wget for windows here:
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm

Thanks for that mwrf, I got it working the way I need it using winscp's scripting options.

Thanks for the help daymobrew.

daymobrew

Ziycon wrote: »

Thanks for this, I have what I require downloading now from winscp, can this be integrated into a windows batch file that is downloading the database?

I would guess so - simply call the winscp command from the batch file. Experiment with it and ask for help at the WinSCP forum if you get stuck (the author is helpful - he emailed me a few debug versions when I was getting crashes).

johnmurph01

http://www.ncftp.com/ is your only man. It allows recursive gets. Very handy when transferring from one host to another.