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  From: David Drury <idavid@smug.adelaide.edu.au>
  To  : Linux SA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 12:34:38 +0930 (CST)

Re: Backup using FTP

Thankyou alll for your suggestions Eventually the combination of the
following commands in a script does what I need...

/usr/bin/mkfifo /tmp/backup.tar.gz
/bin/tar czf - <some files> > /tmp/backup.tar.gz &
/usr/bin/ncftpput -f /opt/adm/etc/backup.cfg . /tmp/backup.tar.gz

The -f option to ncftpput is nice, I can have a file owned by root and
read write only by it. Though it stores a password. It is for an ftp onlyy
account with a unique password. It also means that to find this password,
the system security on a non user system has to be breached. Tho its not a
perfect solution, it is one of the safest that exists.

cya


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