Linux backup script: Linux to remote FTP.

[nerbonne]

Ok, here is my situation. I have 5 linux webservers that I want to backup to a remote FTP server. Now, the backups should be incremental and should remove files on the backups server that no longer exist on the webservers. The script needs to be able to run automatically by cron. Email notifications of task completion would be a plus, but not necessary. And most of all, it must be fairly easy to configure (local dirs, remote dirs, remote ftp details, etc.)

Does anyone know anything that can do this for me? Everything I've found to date either runs from a Windows PC (which I don't want to do), or it extremely complex to configure.

Thanks in advance.

 

[geirendre]

Some things to think about when doing backups:

http://www.halfgaar.net/backing-up-unix

rsync should do the trick for You.
Use the --delete switch to make it remove files.

http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/documentation.html

 

[nerbonne]

Thanks, but:

From the man page:

There are two different ways for rsync to contact a remote system: using a remote-shell program as the transport (such as ssh or rsh) or contacting an rsync daemon directly via TCP.

It appears that rsync does not support FTP.

 

[zeland]

Why must the transport method be FTP?

--== Anything can go wrong. It's just a matter of how far wrong it will go till people think its right. ==--

 

[geirendre]

Hmm, it's possible to download from ftp with rsync.
Never tried the other way....

Maby Ftpsync works then?

http://www.awk-scripting.de/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi/scripting/FtpSync

 

[nerbonne]

Why FTP? Because that is the only communication method I have.

Ftpsync looks promising. I'll try it out...