How do I back up via FTP and rsync?

Question

I am new to these backup things. I have try Backuppc and rsnashot. Backuppc was cool, with web frontend.

My probleam: I don't have any backup servers I just have server and ftp-disk. I wanted to backup my server to ftp-disk, but I'm not sure how to do it? Can I use rsync?

Answer 1

you can mount the ftp resource as a local

curlftpfs [user@]host:[dir] mountpoint [options]

and use rsync as to local directories

Answer 2

rsync works over ssh, but not over FTP. Full discussion here:

http://serverfault.com/questions/24622/how-to-use-rsync-over-ftp

(Short answer in case serverfault ever goes down: you can't. Try lftp.)

Answer 3

Another solution you might want to look into is a package called backup-manager (http://www.backup-manager.org/).

This is a great script and lets you leverage multiple back up methods. Rsync, SSH, FTP, and even Amazon S3. Very simple to configure and you

You can do a aptitude search backup-manager to get more information