topic Re: ftp script help in Operating System - HP-UX

ftp script help

George_Dodds — Fri, 09 May 2003 10:14:44 GMT

Allo peeps

yet again i need help with a script :)

Scenario i have 4 filsystems that i want to be able to backup to another server.

I want to compress the data first and then ftp it from server 1 to server 2 automatically.

i'll use cron to run this script daily.

Thanks in advance

George

Re: ftp script help

V. V. Ravi Kumar_1 — Fri, 09 May 2003 10:33:08 GMT

hi,
pl. search in the forums for "ftp script", there are lot of questions on this.

iam giving two of them.

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xcde591ccb36bd611abdb0090277a778c,00.html

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xadc85a3e6e0bd6118ff40090279cd0f9,00.html

Regards
Ravi

Re: ftp script help

John Meissner — Fri, 09 May 2003 10:42:33 GMT

in your script you can run the tar and gzip commands on the data that you wish to backup. after you do that you can use this part of a script

#! /usr/bin/ksh
ftp -n -i <open hostname
user username password
bin
put filename
quit
HERE

after you create this script you can add and entry into crontab to run it when you want

Re: ftp script help

Leif Halvarsson_2 — Fri, 09 May 2003 10:43:21 GMT

Hi,
Do you want to backup the files to a disk or a tape device on the remote system ?

In the first case perhaps rcp (remote copy) is better for this task.

Some ideas:

Create a tar file for the filesystem on a temporary location.
Compress the tar file.

Use rcp to copy the compressed file to the remote location (see man page for rcp).

Delete the file from the temporary location.

Of course this needs you have enough space for the temporary file.

If you want to backup to a tape device, fbackup is a better alternative.

Re: ftp script help

steven Burgess_2 — Fri, 09 May 2003 10:56:48 GMT

Hi George

How's things ?

I would use rdist

http://xray.chm.bris.ac.uk:8000/labstuff/rdist.html

hth

steve