Wget all files from httpdocs or example.com/*

Question

In my job I often have to move websites from one server to another.

Till now I zipped all the files from origin's server httpdocs to a backup.zip and downloaded it on new server with wget old_domain.com/backup.zip, after the downloaded I extracted the zip file.

Is there a way, to wget all files from old_domain.com?

Something like wget example.com/* did not work.

I'm always have the root access to the origin's server.

It would be really great, when I can't avoid the .zip file, because the backups are about 50GB and packing & extracting take more than a hour.

Answer 1

You can use wget over FTP, like this:

wget -m \
    --user=$FTPUSERNAME --password=$FTPPASSWORD \
    -o $LOGFILE -P $LOCALDIR ftp://example.com/sourcedir

with -m: use mirroring and -P: target directory.