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Date:      Wed, 24 Apr 2002 10:35:40 -0700
From:      "Jeff Jirsa" <jeff@boris.st.hmc.edu>
To:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Scheduled auto backup using FTP?
Message-ID:  <002701c1ebb6$7439e110$873fad86@boredom>
References:  <5.1.0.14.2.20020424115825.046c3630@us-webmasters.com>

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> Has anyone backed up their entire system using FTP?  I tried doing
> it manually using WS_FTP, and it kept dying when it got to
> alias directories.
>
> Any ideas on how to get around the aliases?  Automate the
> transfer?  Only backup changed files?
>

Try tar'ring it first, into a single archive, and then ftp that archive
wherever you want?

- Jeff

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Jeff Jirsa
HMC Unix Admin
jjirsa@hmc.edu
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