Re: [cobalt-users] The big backup question (Raq)

[Brian Kane <briankane@xxxxxx>]

That's exactly what the utility FTPBACKUP does. It's incredible. I signed up for an outside provider hosting package (500M) simply as a safe backup location.


Get it here: http://filewatcher.org/sec/ftpbackup/int_year.html

We have lines such as this one in our cron to run automatically (this one handles the /home directory):

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10 5 * * 0-5 /bin/tar cfp - /home | gzip | /usr/local/bin/ftpbackup -h 216.71.xxx.xx -u anonymous -p myname@xxxxxxxxx -d /incoming -b bkp-home-daily.tar.gz
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Brian
DJ.NET

>Is there a way to tar and simultaneously FTP to another 
>server? I can't tar all my files first and then download 
>because the big tar file will exceed the storage capacity 
>of my hard drive if I'm more than 50% full.



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