[Datastream #VQU-358838]: IR satellite imagery archive files compatible with GARP/Gempak

Hi Doug,

re:
> Thank you for your assistance with retrieving GOES satellite data for
> the period 0000 UTC 18 Dec - 0000 UTC 21 Dec 2009.

No worries.

re:
> The ftp session keeps
> timing out before the ftp has successfully completed the file download.

Hmm...  Did you try FTPing the contents of each daily directly separately?
The reason I ask is that I just FTPed all of the files in the various 
subdirectories of urequest with no problems, but I did all files in each
subdirectory separately:

<on my CentOS 6.5 Linux workstation>
cd /tmp
mkdir 20091218 20091219 20091220 20091221
cd 20091218

ncftp -u xxxxx -p xxxxx unidata2.ssec.wisc.edu
cd urequest/20091218
prompt
mget *
lcd ../20091219
cd ../20091219
mget *
lcd ../20091220
cd ../20091220
mget *
lcd ../20091221
cd ../20091221
mget *
quit

cd ..
du -sh 200912*
1.5G    20091218
1.5G    20091219
1.5G    20091220
1.5G    20091221

The other way you could try getting the data is using wget:

cd /tmp
wget --ftp-user=unidata3 --ftp-password=unirec7 
ftp://unidata2.ssec.wisc.edu/urequest/200912\* -r

This should result in a local directory hierarchy that looks like:

/tmp/unidata2.ssec.wisc.edu/urequest/20091218
/tmp/unidata2.ssec.wisc.edu/urequest/20091219
/tmp/unidata2.ssec.wisc.edu/urequest/20091220
/tmp/unidata2.ssec.wisc.edu/urequest/20091221

re:
> Is there a way that I can tell the host machine to extend the session time?

Not that I know of.  I believe that this is a setting on the machine providing
the data via FTP.

re:
> Thank you for any ideas you can pass along!

I would suggest breaking your 'get's (mget) into mutually-exclusive subsets
of the full set of files you want to grab.

Please note that I used 'ncftp' instead of 'ftp'.  I don't know if this
would help you out, but I decided to throw it in just so you know better the
environment I am working in and that works.

Cheers,

Tom
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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: VQU-358838
Department: Support Datastream
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed