Re: Help writing a back up script

[Paul Wong <wongpk () starhub net sg>]

Hi,
Ftp backup is not secure at all, if you can use rsync
It uses ssh, and it can use the key-gen concept to automate the login
http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/

Cheers

On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Danny Puckett wrote:

> FTP scripting is already supported in XP (to an extent).  Here is a link
> that explains it.
>
> http://www.tinyapps.org/ftp.html
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Aaron M Dulles-Coelho [mailto:dulles () artifex org]
> > Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 10:36 PM
> > To: security-basics () securityfocus org
> > Subject: Re: Help writing a back up script
> >
> > You might consider using cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/) to help you
> > write some scripts in shell code, or download Perl binaries for
> Windows
> > (http://www.northbound-train.com/perlwin32.html) and use Perl.
> >
> > --Roo
> >
> > Juan B wrote:
> > > Hi guys,
> > >
> > > I need to back up some data to remote ftp server on
> > > weekly basis.
> > >
> > > the local machine is xp. how can I write a script that
> > > logs in to the ftp ,deletes a a file in the ftp server
> > > and uploads the data?
> > >
> > > thans very much !
> > >
> > > Juan
> > >
> > >
> > >
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