RE: Help writing a back up script

From: Hayes, Ian (Ian.Hayes_at_wynnlasvegas.com)
Date: 10/22/05

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To: "Juan B" <juanbabi@yahoo.com>

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Juan B [mailto:juanbabi@yahoo.com]
    > Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 2:24 AM
    > To: security-basics@securityfocus.com
    > Subject: Help writing a back up script
    >
    > Hi guys,
    >
    > I need to back up some data to remote ftp server on
    > weekly basis.
    >
    > the local machine is xp. how can I write a script that
    > logs in to the ftp ,deletes a a file in the ftp server
    > and uploads the data?

    Write a text file that has the FTP commands you want to execute:

    ftp somehost
    USER myuser
    PASS mypass
    DELETE oldfile
    PUT newfile

    Save as ftpscript.txt

    Invoke the script like so:
    ftp -s:ftpscript.txt 

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