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Re: [BackupPC-users] How to backup remote ftp server?

2008-07-07 05:07:13
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] How to backup remote ftp server?
From: Joe Bordes <joe AT tsolucio DOT com>
To: Koen Linders <koen.news AT koca DOT be>
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:15:04 +0200
I like the idea of mounting the ftp to a local mount point. That is a
good one:

ftpfs

Joe
TSolucio

El lun, 07-07-2008 a las 11:10 +0200, Joe Bordes escribió:
> Hi,
> 
> Have you thought of adding a precopy process or cron to fetch the
> information to a local directory using mirdir or wget or some similar
> tool and then have BackupPC backup the local directory?
> 
> Joe
> TSolucio
> 
> El lun, 07-07-2008 a las 10:53 +0200, Koen Linders escribió:
> > On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:42:40 +0200, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)  
> > <nils AT lemonbit DOT nl> wrote:
> > 
> > > Koen Linders wrote:
> > >
> > >> I don't know if its possible.
> > >>
> > >> Anyone managed to use backuppc to backup e.g. ftp://example.com
> > >> providing
> > >> a login and password?
> > >> I can't find anything in the documentation or wiki.
> > >
> > >
> > >  From docs: "No client-side software is needed. On WinXX the standard
> > > smb protocol is used to extract backup data. On linux, unix or MacOSX
> > > clients, rsync or tar (over ssh/rsh/nfs) is used to extract backup
> > > data. Alternatively, rsync can also be used on WinXX (using cygwin),
> > > and Samba could be installed on the linux or unix client to provide
> > > smb shares)." (http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#overview
> > > )
> > >
> > > BackupPC does not work over FTP.
> > >
> > > Nils Breunese.
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> > thanks for the quick response. i can stop looking now
> > 
> > Koen Linders
> > 
> > 
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