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  15     <B>Ballsy</B>
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  19     <I>Mon Jan  6 14:11:55 PST 2003</I>
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  34 <PRE>   It seems to me the question with respect to
  35 auto-backups via Services has come up on this list before, and I think the
  36 general concensus was that it should be done by the services
  37 administrator via small scripts in cron, etc.
  38         As for your idea about the auto-FTP'ing stuff, I used to do
  39 something very similar.  Without giving away all the fun, it went
  40 something like this...
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  42 1) create a file (chmod 600) containing all the FTP commands you'd like to
  43 issue....for example, assuming you're connecting to the services shell
  44 from some other unix machine....
  45
  46 user usernamehere passwordhere
  47 cd servicesdir/data/
  48 mget *.db
  49 bye
  50
  51 2) now, you just issue the following, which pipes the commands above into
  52 the interactive FTP command....
  53   `cat filefromabove | ftp -in services.hostname.com`
  54
  55 3) you can now tar/gzip the newly downloaded .dbs
  56
  57         Naturally, you could have done this the opposite way, where you
  58 ftp TO a remote host FROM the services shell itself.  Take your pick.
  59         If available, it would obviously be more secure to use the `scp`
  60 command from the SSH package to do secure transfers.  These are even
  61 easier to automate, as you can avoid passwords by employing authorized
  62 keys, etc.
  63
  64 David
  65
  66
  67 Quoth Saturn on Jan 6 at 13:59,
  68
  69 &gt;<i> An Idea... any chance of some sort of built in log/database backup
  70 </I>&gt;<i> function -- something that makes a daily automatic backup copy of the
  71 </I>&gt;<i> databases and that day's log (dated), and stuffs it into a designated
  72 </I>&gt;<i> location (like some other backup dir) or even better, can auto-FTP send it
  73 </I>&gt;<i> to another machine?  I know this is something above and beyond the call of
  74 </I>&gt;<i> duty for Services, but it would sure make catastrophic failures of the
  75 </I>&gt;<i> primary machine more bearable...
  76 </I>&gt;<i>
  77 </I>&gt;<i> Just a thought... meanwhile, anyone know of a linux utility that can be bent
  78 </I>&gt;<i> into an automatic FTP send of files to a remote FTP server?  Maybe via a
  79 </I>&gt;<i> script?  Thanks
  80 </I>&gt;<i>
  81 </I>&gt;<i> Saturn
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