Is there a faster/better way to ftp?

[Nathan England]

On Tuesday 05 January 2010 14:36:06 Josef Lowder wrote:
> .
> 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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Do both systems have rsync? That would handle all of it relatively quickly, 
and you could "restart" if it gets interupted.