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From: GSPIEGEL@bsa3.kent.edu (Greg Spiegelberg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Challenge
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1993 18:31:42 GMT
Organization: Kent State University, School of Business Administration
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Message-ID: <GSPIEGEL.127.742156302@bsa3.kent.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: bsabootp2.kent.edu
Keywords: cron
I've been trying to figure out a way to backup all the important partitions
of our system here without having to go to the boss and say that we need a
tape backup machine. Instead, I'd like to try the following:
1) Create a cron file that will be executed every x hours/days/whatever.
2) The script tar's, compresses, then lharc's (for DOS filename
compatibility) the file(s).
Here's my problem
3) I'd then like the cron file to automatically ftp to our ftp server
(which happens to get backed up regularly).
I'm just not sure how I can get a script file to do the ftp bit.
Any suggestions?
-Greg