Re: incremental FTP backup program

2009-12-18 Thread Manfred Usselmann
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:29:54 +0100 bsd b...@todoo.biz wrote: Hello, I have been provided with a 1To backup space by my hosting company… unfortunately It is only accessible by FTP which does not allow me to do the regular backup / restore I use to do using RSYNC. What are the options

Re: incremental FTP backup program

2009-12-18 Thread bsd
Thanks Manfred ! This program really rocks. Backup up are fast and efficient… Learning curve is not so steep, seems very good to me. Encrypts backup with GPG; looks perfect. Thx everyone for your answers. Le 18 déc. 2009 à 10:16, Manfred Usselmann a écrit : On Thu, 17 Dec 2009

incremental FTP backup program

2009-12-17 Thread bsd
Hello, I have been provided with a 1To backup space by my hosting company… unfortunately It is only accessible by FTP which does not allow me to do the regular backup / restore I use to do using RSYNC. What are the options I have in order to do the backup / restore of the files knowing

Re: incremental FTP backup program

2009-12-17 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 05:29:54PM +0100, bsd typed: Hello, I have been provided with a 1To backup space by my hosting company? unfortunately It is only accessible by FTP which does not allow me to do the regular backup / restore I use to do using RSYNC. What are the options I have

Re: incremental FTP backup program

2009-12-17 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 05:29:54PM +0100, bsd wrote: Hello, I have been provided with a 1To backup space by my hosting company… unfortunately It is only accessible by FTP which does not allow me to do the regular backup / restore I use to do using RSYNC. What are the options I have in

Re: incremental FTP backup program

2009-12-17 Thread bsd
Are there any specific scripting tools that I could use in order to achieve that ? From what you are describing a tool that would automate the dump process and take care of snapshots versions would be a must… ?? Any idea ? Le 17 déc. 2009 à 18:12, Roland Smith a écrit : On Thu, Dec 17,

Re: incremental FTP backup program

2009-12-17 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:55:54PM +0100, bsd wrote: Are there any specific scripting tools that I could use in order to achieve that ? Well, /bin/sh and 'man sh' spring to mind. :-) Or use another scripting language if you are more familiar with that, e.g. perl or python. But since you are

Re: incremental FTP backup program

2009-12-17 Thread Brandon Low
I have a backup system that I created for rougly that scenario. It's not bullet proof, not well tested in the community, etc. I haven't even tried the FTP Transport on FreeBSD yet. http://lostlogicx.com/backupsblow/ I use it over S3 to backup my server personally. --Brandon On 2009-12-17