Re: Backup-software FTP

From: Roberto Sanchez (roberto_at_familiasanchez.net)
Date: 12/31/04

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    Karsten M. Self wrote:
    > on Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 06:04:53PM +1100, Sam Watkins (swatkins@fastmail.fm) wrote:
    >
    >>On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 02:09:43PM +0100, Jon-Eirik Pettersen wrote:
    >>
    >>>What would you recommend of software to do simple directory-based
    >>>backups to an FTP-server?
    >>
    >>I like "lftp", it can do recursive upload / download (mirror, mirror -R).
    >
    >
    > Can you run that noninteractively? I use lftp but haven't found a good
    > way to script it. Would be useful for a few websites I manage.
    >
    > Otherwise, of course, rsync rocks, but a lot of ISPs haven't caught up
    > with the 20th Century yet.
    >
    >
    > Peace.
    >

    If you use "lftp -f <script>" it will execute the commands
    in the script file. I suppose you could write up a script
    and throw the lftp command into your crontab.

    -Roberto Sanchez 

    


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