Mirroring an FTP Using lftp and cron
Read OriginalThis article details a sysadmin/data engineering solution for efficiently mirroring a large (300GB/day) remote FTP dataset to a local VM. It explains the specific lftp mirror command with flags for resilience and parallelism, and shows how to automate the process using a cron job and a simple bash script.
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