Automatic FTP Backup / Sync Software

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Spidey329

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Not sure if this is the right place for this thread (please move if it isn't), but a recent power outage at my hosting provider has left some of my data unobtainable.

Besides looking for a new host (these guys used to be good). I'm curious if anyone has any software recommendations for doing a backup via FTP? Something that'll FTP into the server and pull a backup of each file into a local copy (from the machine running the software), then do periodic incremental backs from then on.

It's a shared hosting environment, so I don't have access to the shell itself to be able to push it from the server to a remote storage, it has to be pulled from the remote storage.

There's likely some long ways around of doing it (mapping a directory to the FTP and tricking local backup software to pull data), but I'm curious if there's some already ready made programs for this task.
 
cyclone3d said:
Cobian Backup is your friend:
http://www.cobiansoft.com/cobianbackup.htm
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Interesting. I'll have to check it out. Thanks for the suggestion!

Right now, I ended up jerry-rigging a solution.

I have a local server that uses winSCP and task scheduler to synchronize files. Then Acronis takes a backup of that.

For the cpanel stuff I wrote a Python script that logs into Cpanel, scrapes the Backup.html (backup tools for Cpanel), for all of the databases/filters/aliases in their respective tables, and then downloads them one-by-one into a new folder. I'll share it if anyone wants it. Was my first attempt at Python.
 
Under Linux I use for my hosting and for backup from my home: rsync is my standard tool. Easy to put into cronjobs for automatic backups. A bit "home brew"-style but works in most of my use-cases reliable.
 
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