LFTP

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LFTP intro

LFTP Documentation can be found here http://lftp.yar.ru/

Install lftp using your distribution package management tool

 yum install lftp
 sudo apt-get install lftp

Log in with your archive account

 lftp -u <abc> sftp://archive-sftp.lsdf.kit.edu
 Password: <password>

Upload a local file(lfile) to a remote file(rfile):

 lftp>put <lfile> -o <rfile>

Upload (mirror reverse -R) a local directory(ldir) to a remote directory(rdir) using n processes:

 lftp>mirror -c -R -Pn <ldir> <rdir>

Download a remote directory using pget(nn streams) for every single file:

 lftp>mirror -c --use-pget-n=n <rdir> <ldir>

LFTP throughput measurements