Linux FTP script to upload/backup files — Articles

This document contains an automatic ftp script to upload/backup files to a remote ftp server. You can schedule this script to use this as a simple backup solution.

Installing the ftp client:

yum install ftp

Ftp script to upload files:

#!/bin/sh
USERNAME=”ftp-user-name”
PASSWORD=”ftp-password”
SERVER=”ftp.server.address”
# local directory
FILE=”/backup”
# remote server directory
BACKUPDIR=”/backup”
# login to remote server
ftp -n -i $SERVER <<EOF
user $USERNAME $PASSWORD
cd $BACKUPDIR
lcd $FILE
mput *.*
quit
EOF

Make sure script has executable permissions:

#chmod +x /path/to/ftp.backup.script.sh

Setup a cronjob to run the script at 19:30 everyday:

30 19 * * * /path/to/backup.script.sh