I have to transfer a bazillion files from one server to another via FTP and I don’t know how to do this. I’ve been using the archaic FTP since the early 90s and have never figure this out, or for that matter needed to until today when I had to upload about a terabyte of files to a new server.
Thanks you NcFTP! You can do a simple command like this to upload all directories recursively!
mput -R *
first, get a copy of ncftp for ubuntu
apt-get install ncftp
locally, go to the directory you want to upload from.
cd /var/www/vhosts/somedomain.com/
user ncftp to connect to the remote server
ncftp -u username -p userpassword domain_or_ip
NcFTP 3.2.5 (Feb 02, 2011) by Mike Gleason (http://www.NcFTP.com/contact/).
Connecting to xxx.xxx.xx.x…
——— Welcome to Pure-FTPd [privsep] [TLS] ———-
You are user number 5 of 50 allowed.
Local time is now 08:51. Server port: 21.
IPv6 connections are also welcome on this server.
You will be disconnected after 15 minutes of inactivity.
Logging in…
OK. Current restricted directory is /
navigate to the directory you want to upload
cd public_html
OK. Current directory is /public_html
finally mput(multi put) all of your files from your local directory. add the -R flag for recursive.
ncftp /public_html > mput -R *
voila!!! you’re on your way!
add_company.php: 1.00 kB 81.08 kB/s
add_user.php: 2.42 kB 205.00 kB/s
crossdomain.xml: 405.00 B 17.47 kB/s
css/jquery.imageZoom.css: 851.00 B 51.27 kB/s
css/prettyPhoto.css: 12.01 kB 933.22 kB/s
databae.sql: 1.62 kB 133.73 kB/s
delete_company.php: 1.14 kB 68.09 kB/s
delete_file.php: 298.00 B 26.93 kB/s
delete_user.php: 817.00 B 66.54 kB/s
download_file.php: 1.98 kB 159.13 kB/s
edit_company.php: 1.44 kB 102.02 kB/s
edit_user.php: 3.27 kB 136.30 kB/s
files/ft2.php: 130.49 kB 2.06 MB/s
files/AdvancePierre_Foods/Carl’s Jr.ai: 1.99 MB 4.90 MB/s
…/AdvancePierre_Foods/advancepierre/APFnsmFin.pptx: 14.46 MB 5.83 MB/s
…_Foods/powerpoint videos/SEQ_AmandaSmellerV03.wmv: 64.51 MB 6.19 MB/s
files/AdvancePierre_Foods/powerpoint videos/MP4s.zip: 77.74 MB 6.33 MB/s
…rre_Foods/powerpoint videos/SEQ_StevenKiddV02.wmv: 16.09 MB 6.15 MB/s
…&J/partners club 2012/partnersclubtrip2012v05.wmv: 49.59 MB 6.29 MB/s
thanks NcFTP!
NcFTP Software.
