You can't directly backup an ftp host.

You could: 
1) do a pre-backup script to mount the ftp site using your favorite method,
and a post-backup script to dismount it. (Dan answered this to me some time
ago)

2) Or via cron you could do wget and backup the local folder with backuppc

(Dan " 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")

Greetings,
Koen Linders

-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: Mirco Piccin [mailto:pictux AT gmail DOT com] 
Verzonden: donderdag 9 april 2009 12:48
Aan: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Onderwerp: [BackupPC-users] Backup remote ftp server (internet site)

Hi all,
i've installed BackupPC 3.2.0.
It works very well!
I'm trying to do a remote ftp server backup.
The ftp server is a internet site; i've ftp access to manage all site files.
My aim is to backup this site.

So, i create a new host, and set:
$Conf{ClientNameAlias}  - the full ftp address
$Conf{XferMethod}  - FTP
$Conf{FtpShareName} - tryed both nothing and  /htdocs (it's a web
site, and this it it's root).
$Conf{FtpUserName} - ftp host username
$Conf{FtpPasswd} - ftp host password

but, if i try to run a full backup, it does not run with this error:
Last error is "xfer start failed: Can't open connection to : Invalid
argument".

Any suggets/tips?
Thanks!

Regards
M

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