Automatic FTP Backup System - A Very Simple Solution

March 27, 2008 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp
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Earlier last week I was reading some posts in a web hosting forum "Site Backup - Virtual Private Servers (VPS)", within the post a forum member was trying to facilitate an automated backup system for his important files. In this case they were web based files.

YAFC - FTP There were some excellent solutions presented, such as Rsync, etc. But I thought that sometimes all we need is a small fix. It left me wondering how well known "Yet Another FTP Client" (Yafc) is? (There are quite a few, but this is one I found on Sourceforge (I think in 2005). It's a very handy, small client. From their Sourceforge profile:

"...Yafc is yet another FTP client which features a directory cache, remote filename completion, aliases, colorized ls, recursive get/put/ls/rm, nohup mode transfers, tagging (queueing), multiple connections, proxy support, and more. It has also support for Kerberos authentication and SSH2 (sftp)..."

You can read more about it here: yafc - Default branch

For a simple solution you can create a bash script to run the backup and cron to schedule it in an automated fashion. Here's a script example:

#!/bin/bash yafc <<** open ftp://username:password@<your-site-IP-address>/ cd public_html mget * close **

Needless to say this is a very simple and fast fix and anyone can add and enhance the above example.

Nice, short, fast.
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Site backup - Page 2 - Your HostICan Community on March 27, 2008 11:51 am
[...] a simplified solution, I blogged about it here: Automatic FTP Backup System - A Very Simple Solution | Ubuntu Linux Help Maybe a few of you could take this a few steps further. For example, we could use a script to [...]
Fr33d0m on March 31, 2008 8:21 am
The problem is that FTP is not a very secure means of transferring files.
UbuntuLinuxHelp on March 31, 2008 8:55 am
@Fr33d0m - Good point! That’s one thing everyone should be aware of!
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Blogging me blogging you on July 13, 2008 1:34 pm
[...] som jag är frågade jag självklart Google om en lösning och hittade denna sida som beskriver hur man använder den minimala Linux FTP-klienten yafc för att ladda ner backups [...]
khalil on May 9, 2009 8:14 am
You can encrypt your tar file before sending it with ftp using gpg -s .
Quite easy and secure too !!!