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drevicko
Asked: 2012-02-14 22:26:15 +0800 CST

How do I recursively copy/download a whole webdav directory?

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When I attempt to copy a folder from a webdav server to a local disk using Nautilus, it copies what appeas to be a manifest file (xml with the directory listing etc..). With cadaver I get an empty file.

I would like to be able to recursively copy a whole directory tree. Does anyone know how I can do this?

ps: I'm using Ubuntu 11.04 with Nautilus 2.32.2.1 and Cadaver 0.23.3

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  1. Best Answer

    This answer summarises suggestions given in comments by @Ocaso and @Rinzwind.

    I used this:

    wget -r -nH -np --cut-dirs=1 --no-check-certificate -U Mozilla --user={uname} 
    --password={pwd} https://my-host/my-webdav-dir/my-dir-in-webdav

    Not perfect (downloaded lots of 'index.html?C=M;O=D' and the like) but otherwise worked ok.

    The "-r" downloads recursively, following links.

    The "-np" prevents ascending to parent directories (else you download the whole website!).

    The "-nH" prevents creating a directory called "my-host" (which I didn't want).

    The "--cut-dirs=1" prevents creating a directory called "my-webdav-dir".

    The "--no-check-certificate" is because I'm using a self-signed certificate on the webdav server (I'm also forcing https).

    The "-U Mozilla" sets the user agent in the http request to "Mozilla" - my webdav server didn't actually need this, but I've included it anyway.

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  2. Alternatively you can mount it as a path to be accessed as part of your own file system.

    sudo mount -t davfs https://your.remote/path /your/local/mount/point

    Note: /your/local/mount/point has to be a real existing directory for this to work.

    As far as I know you only need to run the following to get the command to work: sudo apt-get install davfs2 (If more configuration is required I apologise, it was a long time ago that I did this.)

    (I added this as an answer because I feel Liam's answer didn't give enough info.)

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  3. Actually with Cadaver you can cd to directory from which you want to download files and mget *.

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  4. You can use dav2fs to mount the webdav server, and then you can access it as you would a local directory.

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  5. I realize that this is an old question, but I was wanting to do this and I found rclone which is like rsync for the cloud and supports a lot of different protocols including WebDAV. You use rclone config to configure a remote and then just do rclone copy remote:path . and int will download everything. You can also use rclone sync remote:path . and it will do checking of the files and only copy updates. It is a golang program so it is very portable.

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