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

[Gareth Evans]

Wget¹s ‹mirror option is a good standby if all you have is FTP access. I
believe you can get it from darwin ports.

wget --mirror --ftp-user=username --ftp-password=password
ftp://ftp.example.com/sitedir

-- 
GARETH EVANS


> From: Gjermund Gusland Thorsen <ggt667 at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: "FX.php Discussion List" <fx.php_list at mail.iviking.org>
> Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:55:22 +0100
> To: "FX.php Discussion List" <fx.php_list at mail.iviking.org>
> Subject: Re: [FX.php List] [OFF] Automated FTP Client for backup?
> 
> The question is: Which machine are you on? The server has ftp server right?
> 
> The wiggles I sent you was for curl and curl will run as an ftp
> client, though scriptable from Mac or any other machine I guess...
> 
> ggt
> 
> 2009/3/17 Dale Bengston <dbengston at tds.net>:
>> Do rsync and cURL work on a Windows server?
>> 
>> On Mar 17, 2009, at 2:27 AM, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen wrote:
>> 
>>> Here is an example of an ftp upload using curl:
>>> 
>>> echo "something to fill test.txt with" | curl -T - -u
>>> ftpusername:ftppassword ftp://<<remoteIP>>/folder/test.txt
>>> 
>>> Just read the man page and you would probably easily be able to do a
>>> download instead,
>>> perhaps curl can dowload folders recursively too?
>>> 
>>> ggt
>>> 
>>> 2009/3/17 Gjermund Gusland Thorsen <ggt667 at gmail.com>:
>>>> 
>>>> rsync if supposedly good, however I use cURL for such tasks.
>>>> 
>>>> ggt
>>>> 
>>>> 2009/3/17 Dale Bengston <dbengston at tds.net>:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm with Webko and Bob P here: the key is to be proactive about where
>>>>> and
>>>>> how you code, rather than reactive with backups.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Dale
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Mar 16, 2009, at 9:44 PM, Tim 'Webko' Booth wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 17/03/2009, at 1:16 PM, Bob Patin wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I know this doesn't address your question, but I would be extremely
>>>>>>> uncomfortable about not having a pristine set of my clients' sites for
>>>>>>> emergencies...
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Countless times I've had clients over-write code that I had done for
>>>>>>> them,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Likewise. After a number of nasty accidents with a major Uni's homepage
>>>>>> when I fat fingered in vi, I will *never* work on a live web page, no
>>>>>> matter
>>>>>> how small the edit.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I don't use any GUI software, but edit locally, test on dev/test, then
>>>>>> upload to the live site. I think in the long run it saves me time ;-)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Webko
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