How to set up automatic remote backup to FTP?

Factual Questions
1

Hey folks…
I wanted to toss this question out there and see if anyone had some suggestions…
I have an FTP server with a password protected login on it. I would like to set up a Windows 2000 server to be able to login to this FTP server and perform regular backups to it. Does anyone know how I can do this?
Note that this is my only real option for this; 3rd-party offsite backup services aren’t satisfactory in this instance.
Thanks!

2

Sounds like you want to run a crontab.

Is this a Unix-type server? Windows?

3

You can FTP automatically using a batch script of the FTP commands. I do it a lot for work. You can use the built-in scheduling tool to kick off this batch script. There are also free backup utilities that support FTP as well.

4

The FTP server is a Windows 2000 server.
Shag, can you point me to some of these utilities?

5

http://www.download.com/Save2FTP/3000-2242_4-10404793.html?tag=lst-0-1

is one. There are plenty of them if you want pay $20 or so.

6

Thanks! That one seems to work fine…I just need to set it up so it does it automatically each week…

7

Cobian Backup works great and is free. It’s got a bunch of nice features, e.g. you won’t need cron and it can encrypt your files if you want.