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Date:      Wed, 24 Apr 2002 19:21:52 +0200
From:      Benedikt Schmidt <ry102@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
To:        "W. D." <WD@US-Webmasters.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Scheduled auto backup using FTP?
Message-ID:  <20020424172152.9283.qmail@wn4-marvin.wn4.uni-karlsruhe.de>
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")
References:  <5.1.0.14.2.20020424115825.046c3630@us-webmasters.com>

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"W. D." <WD@US-Webmasters.com> 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 

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