[pmwiki-users] Problem with trashing deleted files from a folder

[Eric Forgeot]

you can also try to use the mirror command from lftp (on linux,
problably it's possible to install lftp on mac os x too) :

 lftp -u yourusername,yourpassword -e "mirror --verbose  /wiki.d
/tmp/ftpbackup" ftp://yourhost

then it should create a copy of your remote wiki.d folder, into the
temporary folder  /tmp/ftpbackup (or elsewhere if you wish).

If this doesn't work, probably your host hasn't a reliable connection
and you might need to change to something better.

I haven't tried it; but it might worth looking this too:
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/BackupPages
If it can compress your pages to a single file, it should be easier to
retrive, clean and upload again.