Copying remote files to my local machine?

[apwalton]

When I am logged into my remote server via telnet, is is possible to copy remote files to my local machine? What would the cp command look like that could do this?

Thanks!

[Rob 'Feztaa' Park]

I dunno about telnet, but you're probably better off running an ftp server if you want to do filetransfers :P

[PLBlaze]

Use ftp or better yet ssh http://www.openssh.org .Then you can use scp/sftp to securely transfer files :).Hope this helps.

[apwalton]

OK my question sounded dumb so let me put it in context:

I have a dedicated server at a local ISP. I have many user accounts set up under the home directory. How can I back up all the files under home to my local machine? To use FTP I would have to copy the entire home directory to a ftp accessible firectory somewhere.

I really don't know what I am doing.... what is a good scheme for backing up directorys on a remote machine? Eventually these files will be GB in size........

[godot]

stop the telnet server
start an ssh server