ftp:// error

[Brad Rigden]

Here are some suggestions for ftp clients:

ftp
wget
ncftp

all of the above can be scripted and automated to download or upload  
specific files.

Regards,

Brad.

On 2 Dec 2005, at 17:25, Marten Lehmann wrote:

> Hello,
>
> from a server where neither a rsync daemon nor ssh is running I'm  
> trying to backup the whole data with ftp. So my idea was to call  
> rsync like this:
>
> rsync -v -a 'ftp://1.2.3.4/' my_folder
>
> But this gives me:
>
> ftp: unknown host
> ftp: unknown host
> ftp: Unknown host
> rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes read so far)
> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c 
> (165)
>
> Doesn't rsync handle ftp://?
>
> Regards
> Marten
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