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marinm · #1 (**permalink**) 11-24-2005, 10:44 PM

Hi,

Is there a way to open a connection to a FTP server and upload the files I want? Say I have some backups which I want to upload to a secure server. The backups are named something like backup.`date +%d.%m.%y`.tgz. I need to upload these daily files to FTP. I believe NET::FTP (or something like that - if this help

is installed.

Thank you guys!

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charvi · #2 (**permalink**) 11-25-2005, 12:33 AM

Here is sample code:

Code:

#/bin/bash
FTPU="user" # ftp login name
FTPP="passwd" # ftp password
FTPS="ftp.server.com" # remote ftp server
FTPF="/home/backup/" # remote ftp server directory for $FTPU & $FTPP
LOCALD="backup.$(date +%d.%m.%y).tgz"
ncftpput -m -u $FTPU -p $FTPP $FTPS  $FTPF $LOCALD

Try out and let us know if it works or NOT

rockdalinux · #3 (**permalink**) 11-25-2005, 12:37 AM

dam charvi you are too fast

May this http://bash.cyberciti.biz/ftp/ftptreeupload.bash.html help u, it is same stuff but u need ot make few mods

marinm · #4 (**permalink**) 11-25-2005, 03:53 AM

Hi!

Thanks for the prompt replies. I don't have ncftp. Do I need ncftp to be able to make this work? Can't this be done with the normal "ftp" program?

Thanks,
Marin Micoriciu

monk · #5 (**permalink**) 11-25-2005, 01:19 PM

FTP client is bit outdated, ncftpput is a special program for Internet file transfer program for scripts, hence it is recommended. Anyways if you still wanna use ftp client then please follow following steps

1)First create ftp login file with user name and password

Code:

vi ~/.netrc

2) Put following text into it

Code:

default login FTPUSERNAME password FTPPASSWORD

3) Save the file and set permission on it

Code:

chmod 0600 ~/.netrc

4) Create a script as follows

Code:

#!/bin/bash
HOST='ftp.myhost.com'
FILE="backup.$(date +%d.%m.%y).tgz" 
ftp  -i $HOST <<END_SCRIPT
put $FILE
quit
END_SCRIPT
exit 0

Save script and execute it:

Code:

chmod +x ftpscript
./ftpscript

This only way to work with ftp script under Linux (as ftp client used by Debian is from Linux netKit project) all other scripts on ftp automation out on net are old and mostly will not work.

marinm · #6 (**permalink**) 11-25-2005, 09:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by charvi

Here is sample code:

Code:

#/bin/bash
FTPU="user" # ftp login name
FTPP="passwd" # ftp password
FTPS="ftp.server.com" # remote ftp server
FTPF="/home/backup/" # remote ftp server directory for $FTPU & $FTPP
LOCALD="backup.$(date +%d.%m.%y).tgz"
ncftpput -m -u $FTPU -p $FTPP $FTPS  $FTPF $LOCALD

Try out and let us know if it works or NOT

I have installed ncftp and this script works like a charm!

Thank you charvi and rockdalinux!! You guys rule!

Regards,
Marin M.

tom · #7 (**permalink**) 11-30-2005, 09:52 PM

Heh these guys always rulez

marinm · #8 (**permalink**) 01-02-2006, 08:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tom

Heh these guys always rulez

That's true

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