How to mirror locally an FTP site with wget (Windows – Linux)

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If you want to mirror an FTP [gs server], you will find wget as a really good friend to achieve this task simply.

Naturally you will have to get credentials of the site you will mirror on your local drive.

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The procedure will be the following:

  • Download wget (Windows) from http://users.ugent.be/~bpuype/wget/;
  • Extract the wget util in a local directory;
  • Open an administrative command prompt (if on Windows Vista or Seven or 8);
  • Write down a command like this:

    • wget --mirror ftp://{username}:{password}@{host_or_ip_address}/*

    If wget will log in successfully it will create a directory, in the same directory in which reside the util, named as the {host_name} and will begin downloading every single file from the remote host, recreating locally the remote directory structure.

    Alternatively you will achieve the same result running the following command:

    wget --mirror --user=x --password=x ftp://ftp.site.com

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