FTP segmentation fault with mget

[tspilman]

I was in a SSH session trying to FTP a bunch of files from our old server over to our new Dathorn server. I tried a simple mget *.* and got the message "Segmentation fault" and was dumped back to the bash line. Bug? Limitation of virtual server? Fluke?

Also is there any other way to transfer several 100 megabytes of data from an old server to our new one without doing the upload from my slow upload cable connection?

[Frank Hagan]

Hmmm ... I've used wget before to do this. It should work.

[sdjl]

You could use either mput or wput at your old host to transfer to Dathorn.

David

[tspilman]

Unfortunately my old host has no SSH access, so i can't use them in this case.

So i tried maybe using their file manager to zip up the content... well i couldn't because their file manager wont let me navigate to the files which are outside of the 'www' path in a user folder.

I'll see if wget works else i'm kinda doomed to my 32K upload speed of 300MB. Gotta switch to DSL to get some decent upload speed.

[Dan]

Do you need to zip files outside of the www path? Or is it that the zip files ends up outside of the www path?

If it's that the zip file ends up out of it then perhaps you could move it via ftp (make sure the file permissions are ok) and then use wget.

[tspilman]

The files on this server are in a folder called web_users which is not accessible via their control panel ( something custom i think ) file manager. So i can't get to the files to zip them.

I can't see a way to move files without copying them off the FTP to my local system then uploading them again... which is what i was trying to avoid.

Seems like i'm doomed.

[tspilman]

will wget recurse folders on the server? It doesn't seem like it.

[Frank Hagan]

There's a switch to make wget recurse through folders. I moved a site earlier this year, but I don't remember all the switches I used to make it work. Look up "wget" on Google and see ... there are plenty of examples out there.

[sdjl]

Your other option is to get an FTP program that will connect to two locations and transfer between them.
I know there is one that does this, but the name escapes me!

David

[Frank Hagan]

An option might be to wget the content in the "web_users" directory, and then ftp download and upload the remaining content you need to get out of the folders not in the public HTML space.

I think FileZilla is the FTP program that is supposed to tunnel a connection between two servers.