Re: (clug-talk) wget and ftp?

[timmy]

Why not just use scp?

Create a script to tarball up the website(s) each night, and run it on a cron job. Create another script on the remote backup server, on a cron job, to scp in and copy the files. There are ways to configure ssh so no password is required based on keys, etc from each server.

tim

On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 08:55:01 -0600, Mathieu Jobin wrote:

>maybe you should work with CVS to manage your website, and then just backup
>the CVS repository
>
>On Saturday 14 June 2003 15:56, Shawn wrote:
>> Hi ya.
>>
>> I've just put together a script file that will call wget to backup one of
>> the websites I manage, and built a cron job to run this every night. The
>> problem I'm having is in accessing a specific ftp folder.
>>
>> The host the site is with has assigned our user account a default
>> directory, so when I log in my path is something like
>> "ftp.mysite.com/html". There is a database file that is one level above
>> this "ftp.mysite.com/database" (assuming I got the path right). The
>> datbase folder has restricted access so that web users cannot download the
>> database file, or even see the folder. When I use a tool like SmartFTP, I
>> can access both folders without having to login. However, when I open up a
>> command line ftp session on my linux box, I cannot connect to the database
>> folder - I get permission denied, even though I'm logged in with the
>> correct user account. Any thoughts on this?
>>
>> The command I'm feeding into wget right now to backup the html files is
>> this:
>>
>> wget -N -r -i source_files.txt
>>
>> My source_files.txt contains these lines:
>>
>> ftp://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
>> ftp://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/database
>>
>> The second line fails.
>>
>> The problem is connecting to the database folder so I can backup the
>> database file. Once I'm able to do this, I can apply it to wget, and
>> backup the site properly. I guess an alternative would be to use an FTP
>> script instead of wget, but the connection problems still exists for the
>> database folder. If it helps any, the host is running Serv-U FTP-Server
>> v2.5m
>>
>> Thanks for any suggestions/tips. It feels like I've missed something small
>> somewhere, but I'm not seeing it right now.....
>>
>> Shawn
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