backing up files from a remote server to local pc.

[davef101]

how do i go about automatically backing up a directory held on a remote server, to a local pc?

 

[max1x]

What platform/OS are you using? You can use a cron to tar/zip the dir and FTP it to the desired location (UNIX) or task schedular (Windows)

 

[davef101]

The remote server is Linux, but i don't have access total access, as its a paid web host.

The pc is windows xp.

I was thinking along the lines of a script running on the server to copy the files to the pc ( ip addy ).

 

[max1x]

do you FTP access and can copy files back to the PC, there you can zip them up, as needed...may be?

 

[davef101]

yes i can FTP, but i want it done automatically. say, end of the month for example

 

[max1x]

If you have Active perl loaded, use ppm to load the Net::FTP module to create a script and schedule it to be ran when ever you need.

use Net::FTP;

    $ftp = Net::FTP->new("some.host.name", Debug => 0)
      or die "Cannot connect to some.host.name: $@";

    $ftp->login("anonymous",'-anonymous@')
      or die "Cannot login ", $ftp->message;

    $ftp->cwd("/pub")
      or die "Cannot change working directory ", $ftp->message;

    $ftp->get("that.file")
      or die "get failed ", $ftp->message;

    $ftp->quit;