Thema: Backup (Archive)

Output of "--help" of my "ftp-backup" shell wrapper for "lftp" (screenshot).

Modern Command Line Tool for FTP Backups

TL;DR: The convenient CLI-based FTP mirroring tool you wished for (hopefully, lol). In my previous blog post, I presented lftp as my CLI tool of choice in 2024 to connect to FTP servers to perform a parallel recursive download with FTPS (FTP over TLS). However, lftp is a powerful low-level Read more…

By Philipp Schuster, 1 year2024-04-21 ago

Code snippet: Command line tool lftp for a parallel recursive secure FTP download of a remote directory.

Programming & DevOps

Parallel Recursive FTPS Mirroring (Directory Download) from Command Line

TL;DR In this blog post, I show you the best option I found that you can use in 2024 to perform a parallel recursive download (backup) of an FTP directory via FTPS (explicit FTP via TLS) from the command line. lftp is the best command line tool (for Linux, macOS Read more…

By Philipp Schuster, 1 year2024-04-17 ago