Questions tagged [lftp]
lftp is a file transfer program that supports several network protocols.
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How to resolve the password prompting issue when setting up lftp connection with sftp and ssh-key in centos?
I have a centos server s1 and client c1 and I wanted to do a lftp connection with sftp and ssh-key without the password been prompted. Currently when I run the below command the password is prompted ...
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lftp for sftp is not working; stuck on `ls' at 0 [Connecting...]
I am having an issue with lftp where it gets stuck on `ls' at 0 [Connecting...] for an SFTP connection.
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How to stop backup being deleted as soon as it is completed?
Duplicity full backup via ftp completes, then is deleted, all with no user action.
There are 2 things I would like to know;
is there anything in the information below that explains this problem?
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lftp silently refuses to download certain directories, files
I am using the following command:
lftp -c 'user user password ; set xfer:clobber off; set net:max-retries 0; set net:persist-retries 0; mirror --parallel=500 --verbose=10 --only-missing --ignore-time -...
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lftp: How to list transfer size before (mirror) operation?
I have an lftp job that is going to transfer a large amount of data (30GB) to a slow remote FTP server. For various reasons, it won't work in one shot (which probably will take days anyway) but has ...
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lftp in shell script fails with "pseudo-tty allocation failed" only when run via cronjob
I am trying to create a shell script which copies a file to a foreign server using SFTP (because SSH is not available on the foreign server). The script works as expected when run via console, but it ...
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How to run concurrent (parallel) downloads with lftp?
lftp supposedly supports downloading mutliple files concurrently using get -P:
From the NEWS file:
Version 4.8.0 - 2017-07-10
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* get/mget/put/mput: add -P option for parallel transfers and long ...
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lftp how to upload everything new inside a folder but not the folder itself
I have this script in the a Pipeline:
lftp -c
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set ftp:ssl-force true;
set ssl:verify-certificate false;
open -u $FTP_USER,$FTP_PASS $FTP_HOST;
cd remote-folder;
mirror -R -e -v -n ./...
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lftp unable to connect to ftp site, but using filezilla can connect successfully
I can successfully connect to ftp server using filezilla with SFTP protocol.
But when I try to connect using lftp, and send ls command for listing remote folder, it just keeps on showing status ...
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lftp hangs up on "connecting" when tried to use ACTIVE mode
I need to use lftp in active mode (due to some limitations on the server side). So I have set up the following ~/.lftprc config-file:
debug
set ssl:verify-certificate no
set ftp:port-ipv4 148.X.X.86
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put command work with interactive "ftp", but not with "lftp"
I want to send a file to an FTP server (which is out of my control), and when using the interactive Linux command ftp, this works fine:
[bf@localhost sudap]$ ftp ftp.example.net
Connected to ftp....
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How to have `lftp` compare directories and only sync changed files?
The entirety of my question is summed up in the title.
If there isn't a way to do this, what FTPS-compatible alternative would allow it?
I'm running Debian GNU/Linux 11 (Bullseye) Stable.
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Can't delete a hidden file on a linux server
I've a backups linux server where I upload my backups via lftp. I don't have any other way to access this server. For some reason I can't delete a hidden file.
$ls -la
drwxr-xr-x 2 100 ...
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Is there an alternative command or way to speed up find in LFTP?
There is an FTP server I'm connecting to, and it could possibly have 20-30k zip files and an assortment of subdirectories. I would like to return a list of all of these files based on their extension, ...
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Connect to SFTP via a http proxy in lftp?
I am behind a http proxy (http://localhost:8080). I want to connect to my sftp server via this http proxy using the lftp command. How to do that ?
My lftp command now is
lftp sftp://...
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