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  1. duplicity: local encryption, multiple backends by terbeaux · · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: Best Medium For Storing Data To Survive a Fire (or Other Disaster)

    automatically encrypt your data locally and upload it to multiple locations. These locations can be public locations as only your private key can decrypt the incremental (or full) backups.

    Some backends:

  2. Re:The Importance of Being Forgotten by knarf · · Score: 1 · on Drive-By Download Poisons Google Search Results

    Yeah, it's annoying to change directories both locally and remotely by hand (without even tab-complete!)

    Use lftp and you'll get your tab-completion, both local and remote...

  3. small footprint means no gui by Door+in+Cart · · Score: 1 · on Name Your Favorite Bloat-Free Software

    Give slackware booting to runlevel 3, gnu screen, gnu coreutils, vim, lynx/links/w3m/elinks, lftp, rtorrent, and moosic a try. There are many others of course.

  4. Pretty obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Implicit SSL FTP Clients with Scripting?

    On unix systems, ftp itself is scriptable. Other ideaswoul be to: http://curl.haxx.se/, http://lftp.yar.ru/ or using an expect script as an interface between your script and an ftp client. If you use python, use: http://docs.python.org/lib/module-urllib.html, or ftplib. For Perl, use LWP, Net::FTP.

  5. If Cygwin is an option then lftp is perfect. by mohaine · · Score: 2, Informative · on Implicit SSL FTP Clients with Scripting?

    lftp

  6. my favourites by chrish · · Score: 1 · on The Latest And Greatest Console Applications?

    ncftp - best FTP client EVAR.

    wget - awesome HTTP/HTTPS/FTP download tool (need to mirror a site? wget's got you covered).

    lftp - best sftp client EVAR.

    zip and unzip - so very useful (and I used to maintain several of the OS ports).

    I was going to include bash, but it hasn't actually been updated since 2002.

    Cygwin isn't really an application per-se, but it's always the second or third thing (after Firefox) that I install on a new Windows box... having a real shell and tools on Windows is a real sanity-saver.

  7. Re:lftp by Lobo93 · · Score: 2, Informative · on The Latest And Greatest Console Applications?

    Lftp is the uncrowned king of ftp clients! Lots of features, RFC-compliant and rock solid; in its property of being text-based it's very easy for the operator to use in a quick and easy way. Using lftp with FISH is damn cool, no more tricky "ssh-combined-with-sftp". Other nice features include FXP, mirror/reverse mirror, scripting, parallel downloading, "Copying of files between two servers, e.g. between FTP and HTTP." etc. More features to be found here.

    Truly a prerequisite for a breeze in FTP-land.

  8. Re:Screen. by BinLadenMyHero · · Score: 5, Informative · on The Latest And Greatest Console Applications?
    I use screen 24/7, it's awesome. But it's a utility, not an application.

    Vim to edit text

    Mutt for email

    elinks to browse the web

    MPlayer to play any media file (even videos in text mode)

    mICQ for ICQ (also centericq for a multi-protocol IM client)

    BitchX for IRC

    lftp for ftp

  9. Re:one time passwords by lavv17 · · Score: 1 · on Sending Files w/o Sending Clear Passwords?

    if your ftp server supports s/key or opie, then you can send the one-time password automatically without s/key calculator using lftp.

  10. ftps by lavv17 · · Score: 1 · on Sending Files w/o Sending Clear Passwords?
    There is secure extension of ftp protocol (ftps), which is usually turned on by AUTH TLS command in ftp protocol.

    In this ftps protocol, control connection where the password is transmitted is encrypted, and the data connection is encrypted optionally.

    lftp supports AUTH TLS and turns on this secure extension by default if it is supported by server. In Red Hat 8 this extension is supported by default in wu-ftpd.Unfortunately, in Red Hat 9 it is not supported, since wu-ftpd was replaced with vsftpd.

  11. Re:It's all there! by slackergod · · Score: 1 · on Nordic Countries to Promote Open Source

    And if you need proof of the suckage,
    try lftp.

    a bash-style command line with history,
    and much more. THIS is a real cli ftp client.

  12. Re:Different, not better or wose by raju1kabir · · Score: 1 · on FTP: Better Than HTTP, Or Obsolete?
    No advantages???? You gotta be joking! Tell me how to do the equivalent of 'mget *' with http. Tell me how to download the whole folder full of files at once with http.

    I'm starting to sound like a broken record here, but lftp will do all that you ask, and much much more. Provides the same interface whether via FTP or HTTP.

  13. Re:Different, not better or worse by raju1kabir · · Score: 1 · on FTP: Better Than HTTP, Or Obsolete?
    Sure, you could write a HTTP client that acts like an FTP client (ls [pattern], mget[pattern], mput [pattern]), but to make it work reliably across all servers, the server would have to have a somewhat-standardized FTP-like LIST command or page, since it would be hard to do globbing when the index page is hard to parse.

    It's been done. I believe you're thinking of lftp. Fabulous little program.

  14. Fastest FTP clients (lftp) by ChadN · · Score: 2 · on Mandrake 7.2 Download Available

    For my home machine, I generally use Mandrake's cooker branch. Since I am often downloading packages, I was interested in trying the various ftp clients available. For a while, I was using gFTP, which was easy to use, but not always stable. Before then, I often used Netscape, but it is a total sloth at FTP. Then I tried lftp one day and was shocked; it was usually one or two(!!) orders of magnitude faster than any other client I'd tried (This on my university's T1, so I have the bandwidth.) When other clients would give me 6-80 Kbps, I routinely get 500+ Kbps from lftp (to the same server, of course).

    So for those of you who are comfortable with the original command-line ftp, and have high bandwidth, I recommend you try lftp. It has tab-completion, bookmarks, wildcarding, etc. I'd be interested in hearing other people's recommendations for ftp clients.

    PS. Yes, I use MandrakeUpdate as well, but I like to check for new packages.