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Posted: **Fri Oct 30, 2009 7:14 pm**

This is something I have wondered about for a long time.

I have multiple PC's on my LAN in my home.

My main workstation, we'll call PC.
My home server, we'll call SERVER.

I am on my PC. I open an FTP client. I start downloading a backup of dtman.com directly to a drive on my server, which I have mapped on my PC.

Is this dtman.com data routing to my server through my PC and FTP client, or is Windows smart enough to grab the data from the internet, through the cable modem, through the router, and put it directly on the server?

Edited By GORDON on 1256944465

Posted: **Fri Oct 30, 2009 7:24 pm**

Through your PC.

Posted: **Fri Oct 30, 2009 8:04 pm**

If you want the server to do the work, then try opening a shell on your server and using wget. That'll do the trick.

Unless it's a Windows server in which case you'll need a different command that I don't know.

EDIT: Better still, write a script on the server to do an automatic pull every week (and email you a verification once done). Then you never have to think about it until something stops working.

Edited By TPRJones on 1256947531

Posted: **Fri Oct 30, 2009 8:20 pm**

curl ftw

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Windows networking question.