Rob Evans mentions that there is documentation on using rsync to get RFCs and internet drafts: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rsync-help.html After some testing, rsync works well for me. I use rsync --stats -az --delete --exclude=ien \ ftp.rfc-editor.org::rfcs \ ~/in-notes # Use --ignore-existing to prevent I-Ds from being deleted or replaced with # tombstones. rsync --stats -az --ignore-existing \ ftp.rfc-editor.org::internet-drafts \ ~/internet-drafts Dale