DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: backup on the web

In my opinion it would make much more sense to support FTP and perhaps something like WebDAV. This is proven technology and I do think roberts agrument about not working with MS ftp is a bit thin :-)

The problem isn't so much the buggy MS FTP server.

The problem is that people don't KNOW about the buggy MS FTP server so it produces a ton of "help me, my web backup doesn't work" messages for the developer.

It is easy to trivialize this drawback if you aren't the guy getting all of the complaints.

I agree with cbagger on this one, that's why i did not insist when i saw Robert's answer. Hope that this will one day become possible...

Ok. Lets try an experiment. A call for beta testers.
I have uploaded my program that I wrote last September. I have been using it without problems with my ISP.
I have packaged it as an extension. If the results are good I will add it into the iso. Here's what it is.

The extension webdata.tar.gz contains:

1 webdata the Lua-fltk program
2. webdata.lst a file list similiar to filetool.lst, i.e., a list of files to be store on the web/ftp site.
3. .netrc used only during transmission for automatic ftp session.

All there are installed into and can be run from /home/dsl

You must be using dsl-1.0RC2 as this already has the encryption program that I am using. I am planning more with this in the next full release of DSL.

You must have an ftp account with your ISP and know your password.

Note this program is to be considered beta. use at your own risk.
But please be a good beta tester and let me know yea or nay.

You should download the webdata.tar.gz and use mydsl-load on it or emelfm however you normally load your extensions. Three files should be installed into /home/dsl/

First take a look at webdata.lst. It is just a sample of what files to backup to the ftp site. It is up to you. Since, you must already have a net connection, it is different from filetool.lst

To run this beta program open an xterm as normal user dsl and type
./webdata

A GUI appears:
1. Enter the ftp url for your ISP.
2. Enter your ftp login name for this ISP
3. Enter your ftp password for this ISP
4. Enter a password to be used access to the encrypted data.

Select BACKUP

The program displays the ftp connection messages.

If you get this far, it probably means it is going to work for you.
If you see error messages in the xterm window please report back what they are.

To restore the data, simply run the program again and select RESTORE.
Be sure that you know your encrypted password otherwise no one is going to be able to help you.

This has worked reliably for me. I hope we can get some good feedback here.
If so I will do more cleanup and integrate it better into the system.

Robert

Oops, almost forgot, you can get it here. webdata.tar.gz

i'll say, slax has nice ideas
roberts gets a cookie for recognizing that
it might sound a little uncourteous and rude coming out like this but i assure you it's not what i meant, but some kind soul might be able to give a wee bit of bandwidth for the poor guys who just happen to have ms' shitty servers
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