incremental FTP backup program

[bsd]

Are there any specific scripting tools that I could use in order to achieve that ? 

From what you are describing a tool that would automate the dump process and take care of snapshots versions would be a must… ?? 


Any idea ? 


Le 17 déc. 2009 à 18:12, Roland Smith a écrit :

> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 05:29:54PM +0100, bsd wrote:
>> Hello, 
>> 
>> I have been provided with a 1To backup space by my hosting company…
>> unfortunately It is only accessible by FTP which does not allow me to do the
>> regular backup / restore I use to do using RSYNC.
>> 
>> 
>> What are the options I have in order to do the backup / restore of the files
>> knowing that :
>> 
>> 1. I would like to have a time based backup solution (incremental with
>> sub-folder for daily backup so I can restore files from xxx days ago).
>> 
>> 2. I need to use ftp as a transport
>> 
>> 3. Some of my servers have limited space so doing a local sync then FTP will
>> not be possible.
>> 
>> 4. If possible I would like a bullet proof solution ideally "well known" |
>> tested and available from the port tree.
> 
> There are several avenues available even with the tools in the base system.
> 
> One of those is to use dump(8), assuming you are using UFS filesystems, of
> course. Make regular dumps (of different levels), compress them using
> bzip2(1), encrypt the compressed dumpfiles using openssl(1) (do _not_ use
> crypt(1)!) and use ftp(1) to transfer them to the hosting company.
> 
> Another way is to use mtree(8). You can use this to generate a file containing the
> state of a filesystem hierarchy. Running it against a previously saved
> specification can yield a list of files that have changed. Use tar and bzip2
> to create an archive of the files that have changed. Encrypt and send same as
> above. 
> 
> All these programs come with the base system, you would just need to script
> them.
> 
> Roland
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