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  From: Mark Phillips <mark@austrics.com.au>
  To  : David Drury <idavid@smug.adelaide.edu.au>
  Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 10:36:17 +0930

Re: Backup using FTP

I'm not sure I can help you with piping into ftp but as far as scripting
something...

I have found "lftp" to be a rather good ftp program.  Interactively it is
great, and
according to the man page you can script via "lftp -c <command>".  So, I
suspect what
you would write would be:

tar czf ~/tmp/tmpbackup.tar.gz <files>
lftp -c "put ~tmp/tmpbackup.tar.gz" -u <user>,<password> <server>
rm ~/tmp/tmpbackup.tar.gz

Actually, I've just tried it and that middle line doesn't work for some
reason, it
comes back with a prompt.  Anyone know how this can be fixed?

Cheers,

Mark.

David Drury wrote:

> Hey there, I was wondering what script options I have for backing up via
> FTP.
>
> I have a linux box needing backup and a netware server with the backup
> device in it (running unix services).
>
> I'd like to do something like
>
> tar czf - <files> | ftp server backupfile.tar.gz
>
> But can't find anything in the man pages about this. I know NCFTP has a
> config file that'll store usernames and passwords which will be usefull,
> but there is still the problem of piping.
>
> If this can't be done. Can someone make alternae suggestions for file
> transfer that don't involve mounting the netware volumes, or putting the
> backup device in the linux box. Neither of which are options.
>
> cya
>
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