ftp

[Charlie Bullen]

Good Morning, I need to copy several directories complete with all 
files they contain from one computer to another using ftp. The location 
of the directories on computer 1 is /var/www with several subdirectories. 
Many of the subdirectories also have subdirectories and all contain 
multiple files. I want the stucture on computer 2 to be the same as on 
computer 1.

I establish an ftp connection from computer 2 to computer 1 and make the 
following entry:

mget /var/www/* /var/www

It seems to start the transfer and asks me if I want to transfer each 
file. I answered y. I then closed the session and got the following response:

ftp> exit
221-You have transferred 0 bytes in 0 files.
221-Total traffic for this session was 244 bytes in 0 transfers.
221-Thank you for using the FTP service on webserver1.
221 Goodbye.

to be sure I went to /var/www on computer 2 and sure enough nothing was 
there. Any Ideas?

I could get in my car and drive over to the site where all these files 
reside on a win 98 box and ftp them from there to computer 2, but since I 
can ssh into computer 2 from home it seems like there mst be a way to do 
it remotley. 

Sad to say all of my ftp expierience has been using a windows client to 
ftp to a linux or unix box, no command line expierience.

Thanks


Charlie