From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 24 10:21:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailgate.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (mailgate.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de [129.13.64.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C39E37B438 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 10:21:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wn4-marvin.wn4.uni-karlsruhe.de (root@tplx2.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de [129.13.88.71]) by mailgate.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 170QSP-00065D-00; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 19:21:29 +0200 Received: (qmail 9284 invoked by uid 1000); 24 Apr 2002 17:21:53 -0000 Message-ID: <20020424172152.9283.qmail@wn4-marvin.wn4.uni-karlsruhe.de> To: "W. D." Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Scheduled auto backup using FTP? References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020424115825.046c3630@us-webmasters.com> From: Benedikt Schmidt Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 19:21:52 +0200 In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020424115825.046c3630@us-webmasters.com> ("W. D."'s message of "Wed, 24 Apr 2002 12:03:04 -0500") Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2 (i386--freebsd) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "W. D." writes: > Has anyone backed up their entire system using FTP? I tried doing > it manually using WS_FTP, and it kept dying when it got to > alias directories. > > Any ideas on how to get around the aliases? Automate the > transfer? Only backup changed files? Seems like you are looking for something like rsync. (/usr/ports/net/rsync) -- Benedikt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message