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Re: [cobalt-users] simple question



Andrew @ Clarkies <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote  Wednesday,
April 11, 2001 10:58 AM
> Can anyone answer me what seems to be a very simple
question.
> We are using a Cobalt web server, OS6, and would like to
use the
> scheduled backup facility in the user control panel to
backup the
> files on our sites.
>
> We have elected to do this weekly and would like to do it
by FTP
> to another web server for which we have the username,
password
> and hostname.
>
> The problem we have, is how do we specify the directory in
which it
> FTP's the files to. For example if the login details were
as follows :-
>
I don't know the answer, but I use rsync, and it works
great.
It is not difficult to install. Does incremental backups.
The
first one takes a while. Set it up as a cron task
http://rsync.samba.org
Gerald