Re: Help writing a back up script

[Cory Foy <Cory.Foy () mobilehwy com>]

Hayes, Ian wrote:
> > From: Juan B [mailto:juanbabi () yahoo com]
> > 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

Right. Then put the FTP command in a batch file and use windows 
scheduler to run that.

Cory