Mirror websites with lftp

config — Wed, 19 May 2010 22:13:47 +0000

There are lots of methods to mirror websites, you could use tons of Gui tools or just use Curl, wget or httrack. But as usual with linux there is a simpler and/or “better” method – lftp. It works great for mirroring Apache directory listings.

Try this next time you want to mirror a website:

lftp -e "mirror -c" http://greatdomain.com/somedir/

oh and if there is “command not found” after you try it then:

for Debian based systems ( like ubuntu or debian itself )

sudo apt-get install lftp

for Rpm based ( like Centos or Fedora )

yum install lftp

for Mac OSX you could use MacPorts – http://www.macports.org

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Mirror websites with lftp