What's the best way to automate secure FTP in PowerShell?

Question

I\'d like to automate the FTP download of a database backup file using PowerShell. The file name includes the date so I can\'t just run the same FTP script every day. Is t

Answer 1

Taken from here

$source = "ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/ResKit/win2000/dureg.zip"
$target = "c:\temp\dureg.zip"
$WebClient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
$WebClient.DownloadFile($source, $target)

Works for me