Hi,
I've recently been helping some friends backup data from a shared web
host to which they only have FTP access. After some trial and quite a
lot of errors, I've found that I can do this using curlftpfs (an FTP
FUSE filesystem) as the source for rdiff-backup. My approach hasn't
been very scientific but I've got it working reliably using the options
below:
--snip--
# Mount single-threaded and readonly
/usr/bin/curlftpfs -s -r user:[email protected] /some/mount/point
# Backup to local disk (inodes may change between mounts?)
rdiff-backup --no-compare-inode /some/mount/point /path/to/backup
# Done
unmount /some/mount/point
--snip--
Setup was rdiff-backup 1.2.5 and curlftpfs 0.9.1 (libcurl/7.18.2 fuse/2.5).
It's rather slow but, with only FTP access available, it's a pretty good
solution. Hope someone finds this useful.
Regards,
Matt
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