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Basically, we had a huge file dump at work and every time I try to copy it over drag and drop style it times out and i have spend a few minutes trying to figure out what/where to copy.

So I decided to setup an mget and let it run over night and it got a decent chunk of the data, but I still need to grab the remaining files.

I don't have write access to the FTP site so I can't do what I was thinking of doing of just making a copy of the folder with the data, delete the data I already copied and run mget from there. I did some digging around and found out about LFTP command.

So steps are, basically:

• LFTP and login to ftp site


• Folder is buried within folder structure, CD into the right spot (right?)


• 
  

  use following code:

  
  
  

  mirror --only-missing "/local_folder/" "/FTP_folder/"

  
  

right?

Questions:

1. the reasons I cd into the folder is that it's a super long and
   complicated file path, if i do this, do i need to specify the ftp
   folder since i am there?


2. is the syntax correct?


3. I just want this to grab what isn't in the folder on my desktop
   already since I know this connection will time out with the amount
   of files there are and how big they are.

I'm just trying to figure this out before I actually run the command.

Thanks in advance!