Is there a faster/better way to ftp?

[kitepilot at kitepilot.com]

Man, people still using FTP?
Are you aware of the FTP vulnerabilities?
(OFF the soap box) 

What OS and level of access do you have in both machines?
As someone already mentioned, rsync does (verifiable) magic...
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Josef Lowder writes: 

> .
> I'm going through the painfully slow process of moving all of my web files
> from one web host to another by command line 'ftp mget *" download
> from the old system to 'ftp mput *" upload to the new web host. 
> 
> Is there a better/faster way to do this? 
> 
> Is there some way to do entire directories and subdirectories with a
> single command rather than having to do each subdirectory separately?
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