R. Busch wrote:
I will tolerate win* as a desktop machine but not as a server (i.e. in my "domain") but sometimes you don't have a choice if you interact with other entities ... Even if they're a supplier (which is true in the case I referred to) they may not easily change their mind to accept Un* instead of M$
Fair enough. So you have to transfer stuff to a server that is running windows and only offers the ftp protocol. I mentioned ftp-upload, but I just googled for the same and realized my mistake. Google finds some windows tool that I regret ever having been associated with. :-) The one I meant is a debian package: http://packages.debian.org/testing/source/ftp-upload
From the author's page:
ftp-upload transfers local files to another machine using FTP. It's meant to be used by scripts and such rather than interactively. There's no user interface, the program is controlled strictly via the command line. It is disciplined with its exit status.
If you can't handle debs, get it from here: http://www.argon.org/~roderick/ftp-upload-1.4.tar.gz
That is what I use for a backup that must go to a windows machine. My cron line looks like this:
0 1 * * * ftp-upload --dir emerge_dev/bugzilla --user username --password password --host example.com bugzillaDatabase.sql
Easy, more complex stuff can be done with lftp if you need it...
Mike http://www.vdomck.org
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