[IRIXdejazel]

Looks like you've found a bug in the wget-static binary of 1.19.4 which i've build. I can debug that version with a bit of time.

On compile: The neko_wget has a release notes file which states environment variables and build procedure. It's under optional software and is printed below.
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You can see that there are quite a few dependencies, but openssl and zlib are more or less essential, the rest are convenience libraries.

The wget 1.8.4 binary can work around permissions if you package the files into a tar archive first before getting them via wget. Then after having received it untar the package and the file permissions should be preserved.

Thanks. I realized that we could have just used tar and ftp to make and recover our backups, but I was trying to use something that would easily allow the recovery of the entire backup, but also just one or two files as needed, in one step. That's why wget looked so attractive.

Still, wget is a bit of a kludge getting files back and forth, especially when there are many versions and none of them seems to operate fully. As an alternative an NFS server or basic ftp/sftp server sould not be too hard to set up.

EDIT: i suspect i fell into the pthread trap again: i think i forgot to link with -lpthread. The getaddrinfo error points to this possibility.

I am starting to think that I am in way over my head with this wget attempt. I feel like I have learned a lot, but also realize that there is so much I do not understand. Plus, I don't want to keep bugging folks for hand-holding and spoon-feeding, which is what it is starting to look like. I mean, I don't even understand the dependencies thing, or where to find them, or where to put them so that it works. That's why the already-built and running version sounded so nice.

We have previously used ftp to send one or only a few files back and forth. But that is unwieldy for backing up a whole directory tree with dozens of sub-directories and thousands of files. Unless of course we use tar and ftp, which for reasons above, I was trying to find a way around.

If the nice folks here want to continue trying to help me, that would be nice. But I can also understand the idea that because I am apparently so green with regards to this, there may not be any way to actually help me.

I am assuming it must be possible, since there is the 1.8.4 version that works great, except for the permissions thing, and the version that works on the 4 core Mac running Snow Leopard seems to have no issues. It even works on my 2012 Mini running Mojave (I just tried last night.) I just don't know if it is anything that I can fix on my own.

Quite a learning experience though!

Thanks,
Dave