I just contracted for space on backups.ev1servers.net and configured cpanel to do a backup there. All appeared to go quite well on /scripts/cpbackup except that I was surprised to see that /dirs and /files was not done by design. Each one of my domains was handled quite well.

OK, the automation worked fine, now for the basic stupid question: I'd like to log into the backup server for a simple look-see to confirm the the stuff really went there.

I installed ncftp-3.1.5-4.72 but this isn't the most friendly of ftp programs. Can anyone offer a basic 1. 2. 3. of how to get in and grab the directory? How about grabbing just ONE tar file to bring back to my server for dissection?

It appears that ncftp is not an interactive ftp. "This version of ncftp no longer does command-line FTP, since the main ncftp program is more of a browser-type program."

Try this in SSH:



Once you are connected, here are the commands you can use to verify the contents:

ls = list files and folders, just do "ls" to list whats in there
cd = change directory, just as in linux / windows

This will let you look at the info. To redownload it, use the "get" command. You can get help with NCFTP by typing "help" or "help command" where command is the name of the command you want help on.

Hope this helps.

Excellent!

This was the "quickstart" command line that I needed:

ncftp -u YOUR_USERNAME -p YOUR_PASS backups.rackshack.net

The rest appears to be the same as regular ftp.

I'm glad to have this auxiliary backup. Now if there was a "dual" configuration to cPanel backups to do both this one weekly and my regular drive-to-drive backup daily. Refinements! - Software can always do "just one more thing."

I am using mc (Midnight commander )
Clicking on FTP link and type

"username@backups.ev1servers.net"
then password

Transferring daily backups .

This is hard work everyday .

How automatic bakkups to EV1 backup storage .

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anyone know the ftp command that will tell me how much of my backups.ev1servers.net ftp backup server space is being used or is still free?

Trying to add up the file bytes does not seem the way to go and I have searched quite a bit but cannot find an FTP command to do this.

Thankx for any help.

I faught this issue a few days ago. The method I came up with was using lftp(a linux ftp client). lftp's goal is to try and be as much like command line as possible. This comes in quite handy, when you need to see your usage.

login using lftp, you may need to set it to passive.
eg: your command line would look something like this

lftp
open backups.ev1servers.net
username
password
set ftp:passive-mode on
"du -chs"

faze,

Thanks very much for your first hand information.
I will install that ftp program and see what happens.

Since the posting I also learned that in the "Server Command" there is a way to display the backup ftp usage, but I have not tried it yet.

Marshall