Download all files from ftp linux

Linux: Download all file from ftp server recursively

You can use ncftpget command to download entire ftp directory and sub directories from remote ftp server. Let us say you would like to download /www-data directory and all subdirectories inside this one from ftp.nixcraft.net server. You need to use ncftpget command.

Install ncftp client

ncftp client software can be downloaded from http://www.ncftp.com/ncftp/ and works with FreeBSD, Solaris and all most all UNIX variant. You can also run command as follows to install ncftp:
$ sudo apt-get install ncftp

FTP get directory recursively

ncftpget is Internet file transfer program for scripts and advance usage. You need to use command as follows:
$ ncftpget –R –v –u «ftpuser» ftp.nixcraft.net /home/vivek/backup /www-data
Where,

• -R : Copy all subdirectories and files (recursive)
• -v : Verbose i.e. display download activity and progess
• -u “USERNAME” : FTP server username, if skipped ncftpget will try anonymous username
• ftp.nixcraft.net : Ftp server name
• /home/vivek/backup : Download everything to this directory
• /www-data : Remote ftp directory you wish to copy

If you get an error which read as follows:

Then add –T option to ncftpget command:

$ ncftpget –T –R –v –u «ftpuser» ftp.nixcraft.net /home/vivek/backup /www-data

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This is GREAT! I have been struggling with transferring files from multiple partitions on one machine to multiple partitions on another, so NFS doesn’t get it done no matter which isthe server of client. I am now using ProFTPd as a server, and ncftp as a client, and I am watching the partitions fill up as I expected, rather than as NFS and cp -vurf were getting it done.
Thank you for posting this fantastic guide!

Great. I’ve been trying to make a full copy of my ftp site for a backup.

Thanks! needed to backup my site, and didn’t want to spend too much time writing a script…

very nice guide.

I install ncftp client in CentOS and its work.

Very useful guide !
I´m using it for my FTP-Server

Hi Vivek,
Very nice and encourageing blog you have, it’s inspire to all of us, realy it works in all manner, I hope you could be feeling the same

Cheers
Go opensource……

This is great…except where the directory on the ftp happens to have a [ or ] character in it. A file in a directory your getting can have those characters, just not the directory you specify in the command 🙁
ncftpget will return the error “remote directory listing failed.”

Really unfortunate, this was *almost* the perfect solution for me.

Seems like it dosn’t download all files, I just did this on one of my sites (-T command) and there where 3 directories that wasn’t downloaded.. had to download them one by one.. is there a limit to how many files/directories it will get?

Hey – I was initially having trouble. Running the command as written, it would download any files in the remote directory, but not the subdirectories.

I had to add an asterisk to the line, so it looked like this (I ran it from the directory into which I wanted the files & directories to go):
$ ncftpget -R -v -u “username” http://ftp.remote_server.com ./ /Remote_Directory/*

Not sure why, but it did the trick.

Actually, I am also missing a few, but not all of the sub directories…

At this point, I’m now doing this by hand. Any ideas as to why this doesn’t work would be welcome.
-dave.

A method that has worked much better for me is:

Much better, quicker and easier method Brad, cheers!

hehe wget rules again.
So clean and cool solution, thanks a lot 🙂
-q for quiet mode.

Worked great. Except for it not doing recursion deep enough.

Currently trying
wget -m ftp://username:password@ftp.server.com/*
as it supposedly sets the correct options.

Sweet! Thanks a lot

Thank You Solved my problem

Thank you for the nice blogpost. I however have some problems. Please take a look at the following ncftpget issue. I am trying to get all my private photo/video
files from a folder on an ftp server containing almost 1.3 million files
of size around 200-300kB (in total 2GB). I first demonstrate that it
works fine to get one file at a time, when I specify its name. But as
soon as I use wild-characters or try to recursively copy all files in
the folder I get all kind of errors, as shown below. Could you tell me
which parameters to use or which FTP program to use if ncftp does not
support transfer of so many files?

Copied from Windows Command Prompt (my real password is replaced by
password):
C:UserstnVideosM>ncftpget -u tnordlin -p password
ftp1.storegate.com . /home/tnordlin/050101001202.3gp
050101001202.3gp: 257.58 kB 190.23
kB/s

C:UserstnVideosM>ncftpget -u tnordlin -p password
ftp1.storegate.com . /home/tnordlin/05010100*
ncftpget /home/tnordlin/05010100*: remote directory listing failed.

C:UserstnVideosM>ncftpget -R -u tnordlin -p password
ftp1.storegate.com . /home/tnordlin
Could not read reply from control connection — timed out.
Passive mode refused.

C:UserstnVideosM>ncftpget -E -R -u tnordlin -p password
ftp1.storegate.com . /home/tnordlin
Could not accept a data connection (errno = 10060.

C:UserstnVideosM>ncftpget -E -F -R -u tnordlin -p password
ftp1.storegate.com . /home/tnordlin
Could not read reply from control connection — timed out.
Passive mode refused.

C:UserstnVideosM>ncftpget -T -R -u tnordlin -p password
ftp1.storegate.com . /home/tnordlin
Could not read reply from control connection — timed out.
Passive mode refused.

I have tried the windows built-in http://ftp.exe, ftp in Windows Explorer,
FireFTP, FileZilla, CuteFTP, Cyberduck (on Mac), but they all fail to
LIST the files of the folder or to get even a single file. Ncftp is the
one coming closest to working, since it at least is possible to get
files one by one when I specify their name.

Firewall/Proxy in between connection? If so you need to fix it either at server level or disable it (not recommended).

Also, most ftp clients can not handle that many file names. I suggest that you use rsync tool to download all files.

thanks for the contribution! I couldn’t get the directories and ended up using wget.

Really awesome tool, thank you so much. 🙂

Thank you very much for this. I’d been using dropbox as a local copy of my webpage across a few computers and didn’t sync before I wiped one of my computers and lost a few local updates but thanks to this I could download a copy off the FTP server.

This is the syntax that worked for me

where /var/www/hosting is the local directory and apps the remote directory

When ncftpgetting a Joomla installation with many files from a (pretty fast) web server, I noticed it took quite a while before ncftp actually started getting files. Maybe a minute or so. It probably takes some times to calculate the number of files, directory sizes, whatever. So one should not give up too early when if ncftp seems to stall in the beginning. Just wait until the actual transfer starts.

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How to Download and Upload Files using FTP Command Line

FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is the most popular protocol to transfer files (download and upload) from one system to another system. It provides the fastest way to transfer files. There is much application available on Linux and windows to FTP services like vsFTPd, proFTPd for Linux, FileZilla Server for windows.

There are various ways to connect to the FTP server, Also you can find multiple free tools on the internet to work with FTP. But system admins know the power of command line. This article will help you to how to connect to the FTP server using the command line and Download and Upload Files using FTP protocol between the FTP server local system.

Remember that FTP is not a secure protocol. We recommend using SFTP for transferring files security. Visit below links to how to use SFTP.

1. Connect to FTP Server via Command Line

To connect to any FTP server from windows open its command prompt and for Linux open terminal window. Now you have required IP or Hostname of FTP server and login credentials to connect with a specific user.

2. Upload Single File to FTP Server

To upload file on FTP server use put command from FTP prompt. First, navigate to the desired directory on the FTP server where to upload a file and use the following command. It will upload local system file c:\files\file1.txt to uploads directory on FTP server.

3. Download A Single File from FTP

To download the file from FTP server, we use get command. Using that command we can download one time at a time. To download any file from FTP server First login to your FTP server, navigate to the directory and use the following command to download

4. Upload Multiple Files to FTP

To upload multiple files to FTP server use mput command. You can also specify wildcard characters to upload multiple files to the server at a time. First, navigate to the desired directory on the FTP server where to upload a file and use the following command. It will upload local system files with .txt extension in c:files directory to uploads directory on FTP server.

5. Download Multiple Files from FTP

To download multiple files from FTP server, we use mget command. Using that command we can download more than one file at a time. To download multiple files specify wildcard character for specifying directory name do download all files from the directory.

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Linux / UNIX FTP Commands Tutorial

I switched from MS-Windows to Mac computer running OS X UNIX systems. I need to transfer and download file using ftp for my personal website. Can you provide me a list of FTP commands that may be sent to an FTP server, to upload and download files using UNIX / Linux ftp command line client?

Tutorial details
Difficulty level	Easy
Root privileges	No
Requirements	ftp command Terminal
Est. reading time	15m

File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a network protocol used to copy a file from one computer to another over the Internet or LAN. FTP follows a client-server architecture which utilizes separate control and data connections between the ftp client and server. The default port for ftp is 21.

ftp: Internet File Transfer Program

Use the following syntax to connect to transfer files to and from a remote network ftp site:

You must know ftp username and password for user-based password authentication or with anonymous user access use ftp as both username and password. In this example, you are connecting to ftp.freebsd.org with anonymous user access (open the terminal and type the following command):
$ ftp ftp.freebsd.org
Sample session:

When you enter your own loginname and password for the ftp.example.com server, it returns the prompt

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You need to type all commands in front of the ftp> prompt.

Task: List Current File

Type the ls command at ftp> prompt:
ftp> ls
Sample outputs:

The above will list the names of the files in the current remote directory (the last name is file or dir name).

Task: Change Directory

To change directory on the remote machine use cd command:
ftp> cd dirName
To change to pub directory, enter:
ftp> cd pub
Sample outputs:

Task: Download / Copy file

To copy one file at a time from the remote ftp server to the local system use get command:

In this example, download file resume.pdf in the current remote directory to (or on top of) a file with the same name, resume.pdf, in your current local directory:
ftp> get resume.pdf
Sample outputs:

In this example, copies file data.tar.gz in the current remote directory to (or on top of) a file named backup.tar.gz in your current local directory:
ftp> get data.tar.gz backup.tar.gz

Change Local Directory

To change directory on your local system, enter:
ftp> lcd /path/to/new/dir
ftp> lcd /tmp
Sample outputs:

Print local directory:
ftp> lpwd
Sample outputs:

The lpwd command prints current download directory for local systems. However, to find out the pathname of the current directory on the remote ftp server, enter:
ftp> pwd
Sample outputs:

Task: Download Multiple Files

You need to use mget command as follows to copy multiple files from the remote ftp server to the local system. You may be prompted for a yes/no (Y/N) answer before transferring each file (you can disable prompt by passing the -i option to ftp client). To download all files, enter:
ftp> mget *
To download all perl files (ending with .pl extension), enter:
ftp> mget *.pl

Task: Turn On / Off Interactive Prompting

The ftp command prompt sets interactive prompting; “on” which enables prompting so that you can verify of each step of the multiple commands, “off” allows the commands to act unimpeded:
ftp> prompt on
ftp> mput *.php
ftp> prompt off
ftp> mget *.py

Task: Delete File

To delete a file in the current remote directory use delete command:
ftp> delete fileName
ftp> delete output.jpg

Task: Upload One File

To copy one file at a time from the local systems to the remote ftp server, enter:
ftp> put fileName
In this example, upload logo.jpg, enter:
ftp> put logo.jpg

Task: Upload Multiple Files

To copy multiple files from the local system to the remote ftp server use mput command. Again, you may be prompted for a yes/no (y/n) answer before transferring each file. In this example, upload all files from the current system:
ftp> mput *
ftp> mput *.pl

Task: Create a Directory

To make a new directory, enter:
ftp> mkdir dirName
ftp> mkdir scripts
ftp> cd scripts
ftp> pwd

Task: Delete a Directory

To remove or delete a directory, enter:
ftp> rmdir dirName
ftp> rmdir images
ftp> ls

Task: Set The Mode Of File Transfer

To set the mode of file transfer to ASCII, enter:
ftp> ascii
Please note that ascii is the default and good for text files. To set the mode of file transfer to binary, enter:
ftp> binary
The binary mode is recommended for almost all sort of files including images, zip files and much more. The binary mode provides less chance of a transmission error.

Task: Connect To Another FTP Server

To open a connection with another ftp server, enter:
ftp> open ftp.nixcraft.net.in
The above command opens a new FTP connection with ftp.nixcraft.net.in. You must provide a username and password for a ftp.nixcraft.net.in account. However, a username and password can be skipped for an anonymous FTP connection.

Task: Exit the FTP Session

Type quit or bye, enter:
ftp> quit
OR
ftp> bye
Sample outputs:

How Do I Find Out More Information About The FTP Commands?

Type ? or help to get more information about the FTP commands:
ftp> ?
ftp> help
Sample outputs:

To get a short description about each command, enter:
ftp> help commandName
ftp> help chmod
Sample outputs:

ftp> help ls
Sample outputs:

FTP Through A Browser

If you do not want to type the commands, than use a browser such as Safari, Firefox and type the following:
ftp://ftpUserName@ftp.nixcraft.net.in
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/
ftp://ftp@ftp.freebsd.org/
ftp://userName:Password@ftp.nixcraft.net.in/
ftp://ftp:ftp@ftp.freebsd.org/
Sample outputs:

Fig.01: FTP through a browser

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