Schedule FTP Transfers

tomED · 24-01-2007 09:57PM #1

Not sure if this is the correct place to post. So please Mod move me if needs be!

I'm jusr wondering if anyone has a solution *one you made earlier* for automating an FTP download of files from a webserver.

I can see there are many ways of doing it, but I guess I'm just too lazy to figure it out myself!

I'm using ubuntu 6.1! So if there are any nice proggies that will do it less manually than a command line prompt that suits me!

Thanks!
Tom

feylya · 24-01-2007 10:00PM

What about setting up a cron job? Should be the quickest way of doing it...

CiaranC · 24-01-2007 10:06PM

Schedule a cron job for wget

is_that_so · 24-01-2007 10:09PM

You can do it with Perl and then run it as a cron job. Here's some code. Perldoc will gives you more info.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use Net::FTP;
use Cwd;

my $server_name='servername';
my $login='username';
my $pword='password';
my $dir='location of files on server';
my $localdir='local directory';


$ftp = Net::FTP->new($server_name);         # New object
$ftp->login($login, $pword);       # log in

$ftp->connect($server_name),"\n"; 
$ftp->binary;
$ftp->cwd($dir),"\n";   
$ftp->get($filename); 
$ftp->quit;

tomED · 25-01-2007 11:47AM

I went with the cron job and wget - so far so good!

Thanks everyone!

Schedule FTP Transfers

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