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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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17 February 2002 - 12:58 pm
I've been searching the Internet for a tool to help me do automatic backups of my various websites to my local computer, and I haven't been able to find anything like the program I'm looking for. Basically, I want a program that will, at specified times, automatically open an ftp connection to a website, download the entire directory structure to a unique directory, save that directory to a zip file, and then delete the directory. (Bandwidth is cheap, server-side disk space isn't, so the zipping happens on my end.) I usually do all these steps by hand on an as-often-as-I-remeber-to basis, but I'd realy like to be able to automate the process. The sad thing is that I think I could write a shell script to do this in UNIX, but can't do it in Windows where I'd like to be able to do it. If anyone knows of a Windows program that works like this, please let me know.
Posted by on 17 February 2002 at 12:58 AM
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