[FX.php List] [OFF] Automated FTP Client for backup?

[david weiner]

I should point out the major difference between rsync / ssh and  
scripting FTP is that you are storing and sending the username and  
password in plain text - so that's obviously why it's not recommended.  
if they allow sftp then you should be able to get a shell I would  
think, but I don't have much experience with windows hosting so I'm  
probably wrong.

- david

On Mar 16, 2009, at 5:39 PM, Jonathan Schwartz <jschwartz at exit445.com>  
wrote:

>
> I'm OS X and somewhat comfortable with the command line.  Server is  
> Windows. They have web=based  ssh ...but apparently not command line  
> ssh. Still checking.
>
> My only clear choice at the moment is FTP.
>
> At 5:15 PM -0700 3/16/09, david weiner wrote:
>> If you have shell access I'd suggest you use rsync - there are some  
>> projects out there that make it pretty easy to set up if you aren't  
>> familiar with it. Google rsync backup and you'll get lots of results.
>>
>> - David
>>
>>
>> On Mar 16, 2009, at 5:04 PM, Jonathan Schwartz wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Folks,
>>>
>>> My client's web site is hosted at a commercial web hosting joint.  
>>> There is another person with FTP access to the web files and they  
>>> recently managed to overwrite one of my php files. Since I do my  
>>> work directly on the server using BBEdit, I had no backup for the  
>>> file.
>>>
>>> So now I'm looking for a good backup solution (from server to  
>>> local) for a server that I don't run. Sure, I could do it  
>>> manually, but I'm interested in an automated solution.
>>>
>>> Is automated FTP a good way to go? Any other good solutions?
>>>
>>> Jonathan
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