Hi,

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 14:29, Dave dave.mehler@gmail.com wrote:

I was wondering if either ncftpget or wget could do like an auto get and keep getting more and more until it has the complete file?

Yes, you can do that with wget -c.

See "man wget", you might also want to see "--ftp-user" and "--ftp-password" options, and also the possible use of .wgetrc or .netrc to store passwords without passing them on the command line.

I believe it's also possible to achieve the same using ncftp/ncftpget, but it's been a while I haven't used those, you might want to check the man pages of those as well.

HTH, Filipe

Greetings,

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Dave dave.mehler@gmail.com wrote:

Hello,        I've got an ftp site, not mine, that has content on it that i want to download. It's not anonymous so it requires a log in. The problem is either the ISP has a bandwidth throttle or the admin does, in either case inconsistently as to the point in the file, but i rarely get a complete download. I'm using ncftp. I was wondering if either ncftpget or wget could do like an auto get and keep getting more and more until it has the complete file?

I have used a cron-ned lftp mirror script to mirror a directory on a ftp server with username/password combo and is managed by windoZ admins -- means requires only cheking available free space in the destination "folder" which is shared with samba.

Long things short: lftp works so well on a desktop machine that last time the admins did not know where the hell the machine was when power went off and they had to switch on the machine ;-)

Regards

Rajagopal