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

do a pre-backup script to mount the ftp site using your favorite method, and a post-backup script to dismount it.

doing it by cron is a hack and will likely cause you to have failed backups if a minor change is made. you should use the pre and post backup commands to handle this. you could mirror the whole ftp with wget or something to a local directory, then backup that directory, but still you should do it with a pre backup script, not with cron

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 3:12 AM, Koen Linders <koen.news AT koca DOT be> wrote:

I didn't think of mounting or doing it via cron.
It's perfect solution.

Thanks
Koen Linders

On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:15:04 +0200, Joe Bordes <joe AT tsolucio DOT com> wrote:

> 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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