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Mac Forum / Programming / Perl / September 2004mount ftp network disk
Greetings, I have been using psync for some time to back up my hard drive with excellent results. Thank you for all who have helped in this. I want to back up my personal web pages that are on the earthlink server. I figure if I can mount them, then psync can do the rest. One of the people on this list sent me a URL a while back and I clicked on it and it mounted his programs as a kind of iDisk. Does anyone know how to do that again? Joe. > I want to back up my personal web pages that are on the earthlink server. I > figure if I can mount them, then psync can do the rest. Looks like this will work: $ mkdir /tmp/debian $ mount_ftp ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ /tmp/debian/ $ ls -la /tmp/debian/ total 25979 dr-xr-xr-x 1 cdevers unknown 512 Sep 9 14:08 . drwxrwxrwt 41 root wheel 1394 Sep 9 14:08 .. -rw------- 1 cdevers unknown 943 Nov 20 2003 README -rw------- 1 cdevers unknown 1290 Dec 4 2000 README.CD-manufacture -rw------- 1 cdevers unknown 2677 Jul 24 2003 README.html -rw------- 1 cdevers unknown 76978 May 26 18:52 README.mirrors.html -rw------- 1 cdevers unknown 38599 May 26 18:52 README.mirrors.txt -rw------- 1 cdevers unknown 23336 May 26 18:52 README.non-US lrwx------ 1 cdevers unknown 13 Apr 6 23:58 README.pgp -> README.non-US drwx------ 1 cdevers unknown 4096 Nov 20 2003 dists drwx------ 1 cdevers unknown 4096 Sep 8 18:52 doc drwx------ 1 cdevers unknown 4096 Sep 8 19:36 indices -rw------- 1 cdevers unknown 23462655 Sep 8 19:37 ls-lR -rw------- 1 cdevers unknown 2709576 Sep 8 19:37 ls-lR.gz -rw------- 1 cdevers unknown 271044 Sep 8 19:37 ls-lR.patch.gz drwx------ 1 cdevers unknown 46 Dec 19 2000 pool drwx------ 1 cdevers unknown 79 Mar 26 2002 project drwx------ 1 cdevers unknown 4096 Sep 12 2002 tools $ df -Th /tmp/debian/ Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ nfs 1.0G 1.0G 0 100% /tmp/debian/ $ Neat-o, I'd never thought of trying that before... The only catches seem to be that: * it seems like the Finder can't browse this directory -- I get an error about having to wait for the resource to become available -- but everything seems to work just fine, and very responsively, on the command line. * I can't figure out how to unmount it... :-) Aside from that little wrinkle, this seems to work well...  SignatureChris Devers >>I want to back up my personal web pages that are on the earthlink >>server. I figure if I can mount them, then psync can do the rest. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > $ mkdir /tmp/debian > $ mount_ftp ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ That's kind of the hard way unless you really want to do it from the Terminal. In the Finder, just choose Go -> Connect to Server, paste in the URL and hit return and the FTP disk is mounted. From the Terminal, just use osascript -e 'tell app "Finder" to geturl "ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/"', except for reasons known only to Apple, the Finder does not admit to support the geturl suite, although it must do to since it can be configured as the Internet Config FTP helper. >The only catches seem to be that: > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > >Aside from that little wrinkle, this seems to work well... Neither of these are an issue if the Finder mounts it. BTW, one little catch is that it is read-only. Enjoy, Peter. Signature<http://www.stairways.com/> <http://download.stairways.com/> >>> I want to back up my personal web pages that are on the earthlink server. >>> I figure if I can mount them, then psync can do the rest. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > That's kind of the hard way unless you really want to do it from the > Terminal. Right, be he implies that he's trying to script it, so it seemed like a two-word shell command was the approach he was looking for. Getting the Finder seems cumbersome in this context. >> * it seems like the Finder can't browse this directory >> * I can't figure out how to unmount it... :-) > > Neither of these are an issue if the Finder mounts it. Right, but again, I'm working on the assumption that he's trying to get this done with shell tools, not the GUI. If you can mount a filesystem by poking at a command line tool, intuitively it seems like it should be much less overhead than bringing in the Finder & AppleScript machinery. > BTW, one little catch is that it is read-only. For backups, that's probably okay though. SignatureChris Devers cdevers@pobox.com http://devers.homeip.net:8080/blog/ np: 'Bank Of Boston Beauty Queen' by The Dresden Dolls from 'A Is For Accident' > Looks like this will work: > > $ mkdir /tmp/debian > $ mount_ftp ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ > /tmp/debian/ > $ ls -la /tmp/debian/ Thanks Chris and Peter for the help. I couldn't get this to work on ftp-www.earthlink.net. I think it is a login id problem. mount_ftp uses the same login id that you have on the mac which in my case is not my email. mount_ftp seems to finish but then drops out with server not responding. I made a directory and used ftp on the command line to login and mget to copy everything. Then I ran psync. Thank again, Joe. > $ mkdir /tmp/debian >> $ mount_ftp ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ /tmp/debian/ [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > id problem. mount_ftp uses the same login id that you have on the mac which > in my case is not my email. Have you tried embedding the login in the URI ? $ mount_ftp ftp://user:pass@ftp-www.earthlink.net /Local/path It seems like that ought to work ... If this is a dead end & you're looking for a better approach, ncftp is also nice... SignatureChris Devers |
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