ftp backup to other machine

[Nathaniel Hall]

If the server you are backing up to supports ssh, I recommend using scp 
to transfer the files to the backup machine.  You will, however, have to 
setup public key authentication to do this.

Nathaniel Hall, GSEC
Intrusion Detection and Firewall Technician
Ozarks Technical Community College -- Office of Computer Networking

halln at otc.edu
417-799-0552



Rushan Sobar wrote:

>Hi,
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>im backing up my data on a backup folder on my machine and every week i ftp and download the backup folder manually to my local pc in case of hard drive failure,
>can anyone advice me how i can automaticly add a cron job or script to ftp from my server to a machine and push my backup folder to the remote machine automaticly every week??
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>Regards
>Rushan
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