Anybody know of a good backup script that would backup a server and then ftp the information to another server?

thanks

I guess you can write it easy.
All you have to do is
tar directory to be zipped. say /home/
Then ftp it to another server...

Then add a cron job to do it regularly...

I hope it made sense... ;)

Have a great day :)

regards
amar

how do you pass the username and password combination to the server using the script when ftping??

use
expect.

Also another thing you can consider is scp instead of ftp .

Have a great day :)

regards
amar

a better option is rsync.

if your on a RAQ, the website, www.raqservices.com has a backup script that apparently works really well. The built in RAQ back up doesnt work.

Jim

Also another thing you can consider is scp instead of ftp
a better option is rsync

Take it one more step.... rsync through ssh, and you have something really nice!

BTW, you can get around using expect for an automated ftp script....


#!/bin/bash
ftp -n updates.redhat.com << EOT
user anonymous anon@anon.com
bin
prompt
cd 7.2/en/os/i386
mget *.rpm
bye
EOT

This might help:

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=19113