Windows server 2003 and Windows XP – How to script file download from FTP server
Posted by Mark | Posted in Scripting, Windows 2003, Windows XP | Posted on 22-07-2009
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Do you know how to script basic FTP server connect/copy operations?
I`ll show you that.
Lets assume you want every Friday at 06:00pm to connect to specific FTP server and download all files from it to directory named D:\Scanfiles.
On your Windows server 2003 or Windows XP start notepad and type:
@echo off
echo user username> ftpbat.dat
echo password>> ftpbat.dat
echo prompt>> ftpbat.dat
echo mget *.*>> ftpbat.dat
echo quit>> ftpbat.dat
ftp -n -s:ftpbat.dat FTPserverIP
del ftpbat.dat
Save file as ftp.bat and place it in D:\Scanfiles folder.
Change this data:
username – your ftp username
password – your ftp password
FTPserverIP – ip address of ftp server to connect
After that create new scheduled task to run ftp.bat file every Friday at 06:00pm .
Cheers! 
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thats a really useful and simple script !! I didnt even think about that before…and have unnecessarily used third party tool to do this (to upload)
thanks for sharing…