[Wylug-help] Scriptable FTP, creating remote archives

[James Holden]

All,

I've just moved a DB-based app of mine to a new dedicated server and I
got 100GB of FTP backup space as part of the deal.

The backup plan is to:

1) Flush and lock the DB tables
2) Create an LVM snapshot (instantaneously)
3) Unlock the DB, allowing the app to continue running
4) Create an FTP archive of the current state

For a variety of reasons, it'd be preferable to create an tar archive on
the remote box, but I can't figure out how to do it non-interactively.

The ancient command line FTP client can do it as follows:

> put |"tar czf - somedir" archive.tgz

...but my usual choice for scriped FTP, lftp, doesn't understand this.

Anyone got any ideas?

Cheers,

James

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James Holden                     Developer, SEO, Technology Consultant
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