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Is there a way to download a .GDB from an FTP site...

ZlatkoGrebenar1 — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:36:00 GMT

I have been struggling with this for a while now. I managed to download .dbf & .xml files just fine, but am stuck on downloading a .gdb from an FTP site.
Is there a way to do this without having to list every single file within the geodatabase.

Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks,

Zlatko Grebenar
City of Nampa GIS
grebenarz@cityofnampa.us

Re: Is there a way to download a .GDB from an FTP site...

KimOllivier — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:03:17 GMT

Get the site to zip up the folder first. Then download the zip.
Or use the new package format (*.pkg) when exporting from ArcMap which is the same thing.

Re: Is there a way to download a .GDB from an FTP site...

ZlatkoGrebenar1 — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:01:13 GMT

Kim,

This is the code I am using to download the .dbf & xml tables.
# import FTP library
from ftplib import FTP

# This will handle the data being downloaded
def handleDownload(block):
file.write(block)
print ".",

# Log in to the server
ftp = FTP('NAME')
ftp.login('user', 'password')
# Go to a specific directory & get a list of contents
directory = 'gis/Taxlots/GIS_DATA/Tables'
print 'Changing to' + directory
ftp.cwd(directory)
ftp.retrlines('LIST')

# File to download
filename = 'Charac.dbf'

# Open the file for writing in binary mode
print 'Opening local file ' + filename
file = open('Charac.dbf', 'wb')

# Download the file
print 'Getting' + filename
ftp.retrbinary('RETR Charac.dbf', handleDownload)

file.close(); print 'Closing file' + filename

Within the .gdb there are multiple files that I need to download. Do you know of a way to download all files within the specific .gdb by using the code above to retrieve all files.

Thanks,

Zlatko Grebenar
grebenarz@cityofnampa.us