About:
ftpcopy is a small mirror-like utility to copy files or directory trees with FTP. ftpcopy understands EPLF and traditional listing formats.

Author:
Uwe Ohse [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.09/10.00 (1 vote)

Homepage:
http://www.ohse.de/uwe/ftpcopy.html
Tar/GZ:
http://www.ohse.de/uwe/ftpcopy/ftpcopy-0.6.7.tar.gz
Changelog:
http://www.ohse.de/uwe/ftpcopy/ChangeLog

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Environment]		Console (Text Based)
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop, System Administrators
[License]		Freely Distributable, OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		POSIX
[Topic]		Internet :: File Transfer Protocol (FTP), System :: Archiving :: Mirroring

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	0.6.7	10-Aug-2004	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Comments

[»] WGET vs. FTPCOPY
by Scr34m - Dec 22nd 2002 01:33:06

When u use WGET then each time it will connect grab file and disconnet.
FTPCOPY connect grab anything and after DISCONNECT.

WGET better for single files
FTPCOPY better for mirroring FTP

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Scr34m

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[»] Wget?
by csmiller - Dec 16th 2001 10:01:23

This looks a useful program, but I feel it is duplicating the work of wget, which can do recursive FTP and HTTP gets/mirroring. Does ftpcopy copy have any features that wget doesn't?
CS Miller

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[»] Re: Wget?
by Gadi Oron - Jan 1st 2002 11:19:47


> ftpcopy copy have any features that
> wget doesn't?
Well, it is much simpler to configure and has the possibility to keep a real mirror of the remote server, removing locally any removed files of the server.

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[»] Re: Wget?
by stevenharyanto - Aug 26th 2004 03:32:44


> This looks a useful program, but I feel

> it is duplicating the work of

> wget,

> which can do recursive FTP and HTTP

> gets/mirroring. Does

> ftpcopy copy have any features that wget

> doesn't?

>

> CS Miller

>

>

>

as the other poster had pointed out, wget cannot (at the moment) *delete* files on local copies that have been removed on remote server. this makes it useless for mirroring.

ftpcopy is simple to use, but i had tried a couple versions in the past and both of them mishandled symlinks, so i had to ditch ftpcopy for now. all the symlinks copied from the server become something like this:

CPAN.html -> .html -> authors/id/J/JO/JONO/cpan.html
ENDINGS -> NGS -> .cpan/ENDINGS
ls-lR.gz -> R.gz -> indices/ls-lR.gz

hope it will be fixed. i'd ilke to try it again.

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[»] Re: Wget?
by stevenharyanto - Aug 26th 2004 03:47:07


> ftpcopy is simple to use, but i had

> tried a couple versions in the past and

> both of them mishandled symlinks, so i

> had to ditch ftpcopy for now.

oops, note to self: try the newest version of a software before posting. symlink handling seems to have been fixed.

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[»] Symlinks
by Uwe Ohse - Aug 26th 2004 03:48:05


> hope it will be fixed. i'd ilke to try it again.

I believe this to be fixed since version 0.6.6.

btw: i tend to fix bugs much earlier if they are reported. In this special case i could have sent you a patch for at least have a year or so.

Regards, Uwe

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[»] Re: Wget?
by Avinash Chopde - May 8th 2005 17:57:15


> Does

> ftpcopy copy have any features that wget

> doesn't?

> CS Miller


wget cannot really do mirroring of a web site - for example, it cannot get .htaccess files, even in FTP mode.


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--- Avinash Chopde avinash@acm.org http://www.aczoom.com/

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