cronftpssh
I Need to create a Cronb that will run daily on my server and will ftp into a remote server with a username and password. It will copy a directory on that server and copy it onto a directory on my server. I then want the files to be deleted on the remote server.
Can someone help me with doing this?
My personal preference is filezilla.
You can install it from the repositories by typing sudo apt-get install filezilla.
It's quite stable and with plenty of features.
Alternatively, if you want to download by using a shell FTP client (no GUI), you could try to use wget or ncftp.
Some examples:
ncftpget –R –v –u "username" <ftp_site> <local_dir> <remote_dir>, (where "R" = recursive, "v" = verbose)
wget -r ftp://username:password@<ftp_site>/
wget provides many options, i've used it many times myself and i think that you should really try it (read it's 'man page', it's worth it)
Best Answer
Use following command to edit your cron job:
Then add following to the end of that:
Obviously you must install lftp package beforehand.