Recursive uploading of directories via FTP

While for downloading directories via FTP there are many tools, for recursive uploading via FTP only few tools exists.  Windows 7 supports FTP filesystem natively -- you can connect to ftp site in such a way that it will be mapped as a drive.  NetDrive provide this capability for Windows XP.

If we are talking about command line tool the best is probably  ncftpput  (see NcFTP )

BTW regular, "classic" ftp client is also scriptable via I/O redirection. 

Other options are discussed in the Stack Overflow post recursion - Recursively PUT files to a remote server using FTP

Sep 10, 2010 | Stack Overflow

I'm currently in a situation where I have very limited access to a server, but need to upload and download a significant amount of files contained within a single directory structure. I don't have SSH access, so I can't use SCP - and rsync isn't an option either unfortunately.

I'm currently using ncftpput, which is great but seems to be quite slow (in spite of a fast connection).

Is there an alternative / better method I could look into?

(Please accept my apologies if this has been covered, I did a quick search prior to posting but didn't find anything that specifically answered my question)

Answers

Try using LFTP: http://lftp.yar.ru/

or YAFC: http://yafc.sourceforge.net/index.php

2

for ncftp - are you using "put -R" command to do a recursive directory upload? – DmitryK Sep 10 '09 at 2:38

I am indeed - I think part of the problem is FTP is quite antiquated.. so there might not be an ideal solution – codeinthehole Sep 10 '09 at 3:29

If you have a good connection, I would recommend mounting the ftp server via the GNOME or KDE file managers, or else using CurlFtpFS. Then you can treat it like just another folder.

This is a horrible answer. There is no way that doing this would be faster than FTP, and it's a lot more risky, especially with high volumes of data, as it doesn't support resume on interrupt. And if he doesn't have access to SSH, how is he going to configure it for mounting? – Benubird Mar 15 '13 at 11:49




No server configuration is required. The server is already configured for FTP. And the point isn't to make things faster, it's to make them easier. After mounting with CurlFtpFS, once could use standard unix utils like cp and rsync. I did say it works best with a good connection. – Ryan Thompson Mar 15 '13 at 15:27

I'm not familiar with ncftpput. For non-interactive FTP, I've always used the Perl Net::FTP module -- http://perldoc.perl.org/Net/FTP.html

This will be faster because you can login, then do all the transfers at once (it seems from a cursory glance that you execute ncftpput once for each file get/put).

Just remember to NEVER use ASCII mangling! This is the default, so use:
$ftp->binary


ASCII mangling needs to die in the same fire with MySQL automatic-timezone-interpreting.


Since I always end up having a problem with this, I'll post my notes here:

One thing I always get to confuse is the syntax; so below there is a bash tester script which creates some temporary directories, then starts a temporary ftp server, and compares rsync (in plain local file mode, as it doesn't support ftp) with lftp and ftpsync.

The thing is - you can use rsync /path/to/local /path/to/remote/, and rsync will automatically figure out, that you want a local subdirectory created under remote; however, for lftp or ftpsync you have to specify the target directory manually, as in ... /path/to/local /path/to/remote/local (if it doesn't exist it will be created).

You can find the ftpserver-cli.py in How do I temporarily run an FTP server? - Ask Ubuntu; and ftpsync is here: FTPsync (however, note it is buggy; see also Search/grep ftp remote filenames - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange);

Here is a shortened output of the puttest.sh script, showing the recursive put behavior in different cases:
$ bash puttest.sh
Recreate directories; populate loctest, keep srvtest empty:
show dirs:
+ tree --noreport -a /tmp/srvtest /tmp/loctest
/tmp/srvtest
/tmp/loctest
├── .git
│ └── tempa2.txt
└── tempa1.txt

*NOTE, rsync can automatically figure out parent dir:
+ rsync -a --exclude '*.git*' /tmp/loctest /tmp/srvtest/
show dirs:
+ tree --noreport -a /tmp/srvtest /tmp/loctest
/tmp/srvtest
└── loctest
└── tempa1.txt
/tmp/loctest
├── .git
│ └── tempa2.txt
└── tempa1.txt
cleanup:
+ rm -rf /tmp/srvtest/loctest

Start a temporary ftp server:
+ sudo bash -c 'python /path/to/pyftpdlib/ftpserver-cli.py --username=user --password=12345 --directory=/tmp/srvtest &'
+ sleep 1
Using: user: user pass: 12345 port: 21 dir: /tmp/srvtest
[I 14-03-02 23:24:01] >>> starting FTP server on 127.0.0.1:21, pid=21549 <<<
[I 14-03-02 23:24:01] poller: <class 'pyftpdlib.ioloop.Epoll'>
[I 14-03-02 23:24:01] masquerade (NAT) address: None
[I 14-03-02 23:24:01] passive ports: None
[I 14-03-02 23:24:01] use sendfile(2): False
test with lftp:

*NOTE, lftp syncs *contents* of local dir (rsync-like syntax doesn't create target dir):
+ lftp -e 'mirror -R -x ".*\.git.*" /tmp/loctest / ; exit' -u user,12345 127.0.0.1
show dirs:
+ tree --noreport -a /tmp/srvtest /tmp/loctest
/tmp/srvtest
└── tempa1.txt
/tmp/loctest
├── .git
│ └── tempa2.txt
└── tempa1.txt
cleanup:
+ rm -rf /tmp/srvtest/tempa1.txt

*NOTE, specify lftp target dir explicitly (will be autocreated):
+ lftp -e 'mirror -R -x ".*\.git.*" /tmp/loctest /loctest ; exit' -u user,12345 127.0.0.1
show dirs:
+ tree --noreport -a /tmp/srvtest /tmp/loctest
/tmp/srvtest
└── loctest
└── tempa1.txt
/tmp/loctest
├── .git
│ └── tempa2.txt
└── tempa1.txt
cleanup:
+ sudo rm -rf /tmp/srvtest/loctest

*NOTE, ftpsync syncs *contents* of local dir (rsync-like syntax doesn't create target dir); also info mode -i is buggy (it puts, although it shouldn't):

*NOTE, ftpsync --ignoremask is for older unused code; use --exclude instead (but it is buggy; need to change in source)
+ /path/to/ftpsync/ftpsync -i -d '--exclude=.*\.git.*' /tmp/loctest ftp://user:[email protected]/
show dirs:
+ tree --noreport -a /tmp/srvtest /tmp/loctest
/tmp/srvtest
└── tempa1.txt
/tmp/loctest
├── .git
│ └── tempa2.txt
└── tempa1.txt
cleanup:
+ sudo rm -rf /tmp/srvtest/tempa1.txt

*NOTE, specify ftpsync target dir explicitly (will be autocreated):
+ /path/to/ftpsync/ftpsync -i -d '--exclude=.*\.git.*' /tmp/loctest ftp://user:[email protected]/loctest
show dirs:
+ tree --noreport -a /tmp/srvtest /tmp/loctest
/tmp/srvtest
└── loctest
└── tempa1.txt
/tmp/loctest
├── .git
│ └── tempa2.txt
└── tempa1.txt
cleanup:
+ sudo rm -rf /tmp/srvtest/loctest
+ sudo pkill -f ftpserver-cli.py


And, here is the puttest.sh script:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -x

# change these to match your installations:
FTPSRVCLIPATH="/path/to/pyftpdlib"
FTPSYNCPATH="/path/to/ftpsync"

{ echo "Recreate directories; populate loctest, keep srvtest empty:"; } 2>/dev/null

sudo rm -rf /tmp/srvtest /tmp/loctest

mkdir /tmp/srvtest

mkdir -p /tmp/loctest/.git
echo aaa > /tmp/loctest/tempa1.txt
echo aaa > /tmp/loctest/.git/tempa2.txt

{ echo "show dirs:"; } 2>/dev/null
tree --noreport -a /tmp/srvtest /tmp/loctest

{ echo -e "\n*NOTE, rsync can automatically figure out parent dir:"; } 2>/dev/null

rsync -a --exclude '*.git*' /tmp/loctest /tmp/srvtest/

{ echo "show dirs:"; } 2>/dev/null
tree --noreport -a /tmp/srvtest /tmp/loctest

{ echo "cleanup:"; } 2>/dev/null
rm -rf /tmp/srvtest/*

{ echo -e "\nStart a temporary ftp server:"; } 2>/dev/null

# http://askubuntu.com/questions/17084/how-do-i-temporarily-run-an-ftp-server

sudo bash -c "python $FTPSRVCLIPATH/ftpserver-cli.py --username=user --password=12345 --directory=/tmp/srvtest &"
sleep 1

{ echo "test with lftp:"; } 2>/dev/null
# see http://russbrooks.com/2010/11/19/lftp-cheetsheet
# The -R switch means "reverse mirror" which means "put" [upload].
{ echo -e "\n*NOTE, lftp syncs *contents* of local dir (rsync-like syntax doesn't create target dir):"; } 2>/dev/null

lftp -e 'mirror -R -x ".*\.git.*" /tmp/loctest / ; exit' -u user,12345 127.0.0.1

{ echo "show dirs:"; } 2>/dev/null
tree --noreport -a /tmp/srvtest /tmp/loctest

{ echo "cleanup:"; } 2>/dev/null
rm -rf /tmp/srvtest/*

{ echo -e "\n*NOTE, specify lftp target dir explicitly (will be autocreated):"; } 2>/dev/null

lftp -e 'mirror -R -x ".*\.git.*" /tmp/loctest /loctest ; exit' -u user,12345 127.0.0.1

{ echo "show dirs:"; } 2>/dev/null
tree --noreport -a /tmp/srvtest /tmp/loctest

{ echo "cleanup:"; } 2>/dev/null
sudo rm -rf /tmp/srvtest/*

{ echo -e "\n*NOTE, ftpsync syncs *contents* of local dir (rsync-like syntax doesn't create target dir); also info mode -i is buggy (it puts, although it shouldn't):"; } 2>/dev/null
{ echo -e "\n*NOTE, ftpsync --ignoremask is for older unused code; use --exclude instead (but it is buggy; need to change ` 'exclude=s' => \$opt::exclude,` in source)"; } 2>/dev/null

$FTPSYNCPATH/ftpsync -i -d --exclude='.*\.git.*' /tmp/loctest ftp://user:[email protected]/

{ echo "show dirs:"; } 2>/dev/null
tree --noreport -a /tmp/srvtest /tmp/loctest

{ echo "cleanup:"; } 2>/dev/null
sudo rm -rf /tmp/srvtest/*

{ echo -e "\n*NOTE, specify ftpsync target dir explicitly (will be autocreated):"; } 2>/dev/null

$FTPSYNCPATH/ftpsync -i -d --exclude='.*\.git.*' /tmp/loctest ftp://user:[email protected]/loctest

{ echo "show dirs:"; } 2>/dev/null
tree --noreport -a /tmp/srvtest /tmp/loctest

{ echo "cleanup:"; } 2>/dev/null
sudo rm -rf /tmp/srvtest/*


sudo pkill -f ftpserver-cli.py

{ set +x; } 2>/dev/null

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April 27, 2005 | nixCraft

by nixCraft on April 27, 2005 · 8 comments· LAST UPDATED October 28, 2012

When you host your web site remotely and and the ftp server is the only way to upload all files including subdirectroies. You need to use special file transfer program such as ncftpget or ncftpput for recursive remote ftp server uploading and downloading purpose. Ncftp is considered as an improved FTP client. Ncftp's improvements include support for command line editing, command histories, recursive gets/puts, automatic anonymous logins, and much more.

... ... ...

The syntax is as follows:

 
ncftpput ftp-host-name /path/to/remote/dir /path/to/local/dir
ncftpput -options ftp-host-name /path/to/remote/dir /path/to/local/dir
 

Try the ncftpput client command as follows:

 
ncftpput -R -v -u "username" ftp.nixcraft.biz /nixcraft/forum /tmp/phpbb
 

Where,

• -u "username" : Ftp server username
• -v : Verbose i.e. show upload progress
• -R : Recursive mode; copy whole directory trees.
• ftp.nixcraft.biz : Remote ftp server (use FQDN or IP).
• /nixcraft/forum : Remote ftp server directory where all files and subdirectories will be uploaded.
• /tmp/phpbb : Local directory (or list of files) to upload remote ftp server directory /nixcraft/forum

You can pass the password with -p option:

 
ncftpput -R -v -u "username" -p "passwordHere" ftp.nixcraft.biz /nixcraft/forum /tmp/phpbb
 

You can use port number 2021 instead of the default FTP service port # 21 as follows:

 
ncftpput -R -v -u "username" -p "passwordHere" -P 2021 ftp.nixcraft.biz /nixcraft/forum /tmp/phpbb
 

See also

• See ftptreeupload.bash script to copy all files and subdirectories recursively and upload them to remote FTP server (copy local all directories/tree to remote ftp server).
• ncftpput client can be downloaded from http://www.ncftp.com/ncftp/ and works with FreeBSD, Solaris and all most all UNIX like variant.

recursion - Recursively PUT files to a remote server using FTP

Sep 10, 2010 | Stack Overflow

I'm currently in a situation where I have very limited access to a server, but need to upload and download a significant amount of files contained within a single directory structure. I don't have SSH access, so I can't use SCP - and rsync isn't an option either unfortunately.

I'm currently using ncftpput, which is great but seems to be quite slow (in spite of a fast connection).

Is there an alternative / better method I could look into?

(Please accept my apologies if this has been covered, I did a quick search prior to posting but didn't find anything that specifically answered my question)

Answers

Try using LFTP: http://lftp.yar.ru/

or YAFC: http://yafc.sourceforge.net/index.php

2

for ncftp - are you using "put -R" command to do a recursive directory upload? – DmitryK Sep 10 '09 at 2:38

I am indeed - I think part of the problem is FTP is quite antiquated.. so there might not be an ideal solution – codeinthehole Sep 10 '09 at 3:29

If you have a good connection, I would recommend mounting the ftp server via the GNOME or KDE file managers, or else using CurlFtpFS. Then you can treat it like just another folder.

This is a horrible answer. There is no way that doing this would be faster than FTP, and it's a lot more risky, especially with high volumes of data, as it doesn't support resume on interrupt. And if he doesn't have access to SSH, how is he going to configure it for mounting? – Benubird Mar 15 '13 at 11:49

No server configuration is required. The server is already configured for FTP. And the point isn't to make things faster, it's to make them easier. After mounting with CurlFtpFS, once could use standard unix utils like cp and rsync. I did say it works best with a good connection. – Ryan Thompson Mar 15 '13 at 15:27

I'm not familiar with ncftpput. For non-interactive FTP, I've always used the Perl Net::FTP module -- http://perldoc.perl.org/Net/FTP.html

This will be faster because you can login, then do all the transfers at once (it seems from a cursory glance that you execute ncftpput once for each file get/put).

Just remember to NEVER use ASCII mangling! This is the default, so use:
$ftp->binary

ASCII mangling needs to die in the same fire with MySQL automatic-timezone-interpreting.

Since I always end up having a problem with this, I'll post my notes here:

One thing I always get to confuse is the syntax; so below there is a bash tester script which creates some temporary directories, then starts a temporary ftp server, and compares rsync (in plain local file mode, as it doesn't support ftp) with lftp and ftpsync.

The thing is - you can use rsync /path/to/local /path/to/remote/, and rsync will automatically figure out, that you want a local subdirectory created under remote; however, for lftp or ftpsync you have to specify the target directory manually, as in ... /path/to/local /path/to/remote/local (if it doesn't exist it will be created).

You can find the ftpserver-cli.py in How do I temporarily run an FTP server? - Ask Ubuntu; and ftpsync is here: FTPsync (however, note it is buggy; see also Search/grep ftp remote filenames - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange);

Here is a shortened output of the puttest.sh script, showing the recursive put behavior in different cases:
$ bash puttest.sh
Recreate directories; populate loctest, keep srvtest empty:
show dirs:
+ tree --noreport -a /tmp/srvtest /tmp/loctest
/tmp/srvtest
/tmp/loctest
├── .git
│ └── tempa2.txt
└── tempa1.txt

*NOTE, rsync can automatically figure out parent dir:
+ rsync -a --exclude '*.git*' /tmp/loctest /tmp/srvtest/
show dirs:
+ tree --noreport -a /tmp/srvtest /tmp/loctest
/tmp/srvtest
└── loctest
└── tempa1.txt
/tmp/loctest
├── .git
│ └── tempa2.txt
└── tempa1.txt
cleanup:
+ rm -rf /tmp/srvtest/loctest

Start a temporary ftp server:
+ sudo bash -c 'python /path/to/pyftpdlib/ftpserver-cli.py --username=user --password=12345 --directory=/tmp/srvtest &'
+ sleep 1
Using: user: user pass: 12345 port: 21 dir: /tmp/srvtest
[I 14-03-02 23:24:01] >>> starting FTP server on 127.0.0.1:21, pid=21549 <<<
[I 14-03-02 23:24:01] poller: <class 'pyftpdlib.ioloop.Epoll'>
[I 14-03-02 23:24:01] masquerade (NAT) address: None
[I 14-03-02 23:24:01] passive ports: None
[I 14-03-02 23:24:01] use sendfile(2): False
test with lftp:

*NOTE, lftp syncs *contents* of local dir (rsync-like syntax doesn't create target dir):
+ lftp -e 'mirror -R -x ".*\.git.*" /tmp/loctest / ; exit' -u user,12345 127.0.0.1
show dirs:
+ tree --noreport -a /tmp/srvtest /tmp/loctest
/tmp/srvtest
└── tempa1.txt
/tmp/loctest
├── .git
│ └── tempa2.txt
└── tempa1.txt
cleanup:
+ rm -rf /tmp/srvtest/tempa1.txt

*NOTE, specify lftp target dir explicitly (will be autocreated):
+ lftp -e 'mirror -R -x ".*\.git.*" /tmp/loctest /loctest ; exit' -u user,12345 127.0.0.1
show dirs:
+ tree --noreport -a /tmp/srvtest /tmp/loctest
/tmp/srvtest
└── loctest
└── tempa1.txt
/tmp/loctest
├── .git
│ └── tempa2.txt
└── tempa1.txt
cleanup:
+ sudo rm -rf /tmp/srvtest/loctest

*NOTE, ftpsync syncs *contents* of local dir (rsync-like syntax doesn't create target dir); also info mode -i is buggy (it puts, although it shouldn't):

*NOTE, ftpsync --ignoremask is for older unused code; use --exclude instead (but it is buggy; need to change in source)
+ /path/to/ftpsync/ftpsync -i -d '--exclude=.*\.git.*' /tmp/loctest ftp://user:[email protected]/
show dirs:
+ tree --noreport -a /tmp/srvtest /tmp/loctest
/tmp/srvtest
└── tempa1.txt
/tmp/loctest
├── .git
│ └── tempa2.txt
└── tempa1.txt
cleanup:
+ sudo rm -rf /tmp/srvtest/tempa1.txt

*NOTE, specify ftpsync target dir explicitly (will be autocreated):
+ /path/to/ftpsync/ftpsync -i -d '--exclude=.*\.git.*' /tmp/loctest ftp://user:[email protected]/loctest
show dirs:
+ tree --noreport -a /tmp/srvtest /tmp/loctest
/tmp/srvtest
└── loctest
└── tempa1.txt
/tmp/loctest
├── .git
│ └── tempa2.txt
└── tempa1.txt
cleanup:
+ sudo rm -rf /tmp/srvtest/loctest
+ sudo pkill -f ftpserver-cli.py

And, here is the puttest.sh script:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -x

# change these to match your installations:
FTPSRVCLIPATH="/path/to/pyftpdlib"
FTPSYNCPATH="/path/to/ftpsync"

{ echo "Recreate directories; populate loctest, keep srvtest empty:"; } 2>/dev/null

sudo rm -rf /tmp/srvtest /tmp/loctest

mkdir /tmp/srvtest

mkdir -p /tmp/loctest/.git
echo aaa > /tmp/loctest/tempa1.txt
echo aaa > /tmp/loctest/.git/tempa2.txt

{ echo "show dirs:"; } 2>/dev/null
tree --noreport -a /tmp/srvtest /tmp/loctest

{ echo -e "\n*NOTE, rsync can automatically figure out parent dir:"; } 2>/dev/null

rsync -a --exclude '*.git*' /tmp/loctest /tmp/srvtest/

{ echo "show dirs:"; } 2>/dev/null
tree --noreport -a /tmp/srvtest /tmp/loctest

{ echo "cleanup:"; } 2>/dev/null
rm -rf /tmp/srvtest/*

{ echo -e "\nStart a temporary ftp server:"; } 2>/dev/null

# http://askubuntu.com/questions/17084/how-do-i-temporarily-run-an-ftp-server

sudo bash -c "python $FTPSRVCLIPATH/ftpserver-cli.py --username=user --password=12345 --directory=/tmp/srvtest &"
sleep 1

{ echo "test with lftp:"; } 2>/dev/null
# see http://russbrooks.com/2010/11/19/lftp-cheetsheet
# The -R switch means "reverse mirror" which means "put" [upload].
{ echo -e "\n*NOTE, lftp syncs *contents* of local dir (rsync-like syntax doesn't create target dir):"; } 2>/dev/null

lftp -e 'mirror -R -x ".*\.git.*" /tmp/loctest / ; exit' -u user,12345 127.0.0.1

{ echo "show dirs:"; } 2>/dev/null
tree --noreport -a /tmp/srvtest /tmp/loctest

{ echo "cleanup:"; } 2>/dev/null
rm -rf /tmp/srvtest/*

{ echo -e "\n*NOTE, specify lftp target dir explicitly (will be autocreated):"; } 2>/dev/null

lftp -e 'mirror -R -x ".*\.git.*" /tmp/loctest /loctest ; exit' -u user,12345 127.0.0.1

{ echo "show dirs:"; } 2>/dev/null
tree --noreport -a /tmp/srvtest /tmp/loctest

{ echo "cleanup:"; } 2>/dev/null
sudo rm -rf /tmp/srvtest/*

{ echo -e "\n*NOTE, ftpsync syncs *contents* of local dir (rsync-like syntax doesn't create target dir); also info mode -i is buggy (it puts, although it shouldn't):"; } 2>/dev/null
{ echo -e "\n*NOTE, ftpsync --ignoremask is for older unused code; use --exclude instead (but it is buggy; need to change ` 'exclude=s' => \$opt::exclude,` in source)"; } 2>/dev/null

$FTPSYNCPATH/ftpsync -i -d --exclude='.*\.git.*' /tmp/loctest ftp://user:[email protected]/

{ echo "show dirs:"; } 2>/dev/null
tree --noreport -a /tmp/srvtest /tmp/loctest

{ echo "cleanup:"; } 2>/dev/null
sudo rm -rf /tmp/srvtest/*

{ echo -e "\n*NOTE, specify ftpsync target dir explicitly (will be autocreated):"; } 2>/dev/null

$FTPSYNCPATH/ftpsync -i -d --exclude='.*\.git.*' /tmp/loctest ftp://user:[email protected]/loctest

{ echo "show dirs:"; } 2>/dev/null
tree --noreport -a /tmp/srvtest /tmp/loctest

{ echo "cleanup:"; } 2>/dev/null
sudo rm -rf /tmp/srvtest/*

sudo pkill -f ftpserver-cli.py

{ set +x; } 2>/dev/null

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