I manage a small server that I back up weekly. I do this by making a tarball of relevant files then transferring it over the local subnet to my station (Fedora 11), whereupon I burn it to DVD. There is no optical burner on the server. The tarball amounts to a bit under 5 gigs. Recently I've started getting an error telling me to try PASV or PORT first. I use the gFTP client on my machine and as far as I know there is no option in this program to use either option either locally or remotely (on the server.)
Any ideas on this one?
Dave
On 9/29/09, Dave Stevens geek@uniserve.com wrote:
I manage a small server that I back up weekly. I do this by making a tarball of relevant files then transferring it over the local subnet to my station (Fedora 11), whereupon I burn it to DVD. There is no optical burner on the server. The tarball amounts to a bit under 5 gigs. Recently I've started getting an error telling me to try PASV or PORT first. I use the gFTP client on my machine and as far as I know there is no option in this program to use either option either locally or remotely (on the server.)
Any ideas on this one?
I use gFTP to transfer small files to/from one of my web sites. Are you using a proxy? In the Options, for FTP, there is an "Ignore PASV address". You may want to Google for this error and surf over to http://www.gftp.org/ Strange that you began getting these errors and I wonder if it has to do with your Fedora 11 box and not your server. GL
Quoting Lanny Marcus lmmailinglists@gmail.com:
On 9/29/09, Dave Stevens geek@uniserve.com wrote:
I manage a small server that I back up weekly. I do this by making a tarball of relevant files then transferring it over the local subnet to my station (Fedora 11), whereupon I burn it to DVD. There is no optical burner on the server. The tarball amounts to a bit under 5 gigs. Recently I've started getting an error telling me to try PASV or PORT first. I use the gFTP client on my machine and as far as I know there is no option in this program to use either option either locally or remotely (on the server.)
Any ideas on this one?
I use gFTP to transfer small files to/from one of my web sites. Are you using a proxy? In the Options, for FTP, there is an "Ignore PASV address". You may want to Google for this error and surf over to http://www.gftp.org/ Strange that you began getting these errors and I wonder if it has to do with your Fedora 11 box and not your server. GL
yes, it apparently was a problem at my end. I removed and reinstalled gFTP and things started to work again. The robustness (or lack thereof) of the backup method will get solved in the not too distant future since I have just ordered the new dream server and will be rsyncing off-site more-or-less continuously.
Thanks for the tips.
Dave
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Dave Stevens wrote:
I manage a small server that I back up weekly. I do this by making a tarball of relevant files then transferring it over the local subnet to my station (Fedora 11), whereupon I burn it to DVD. There is no optical burner on the server. The tarball amounts to a bit under 5 gigs. Recently I've started getting an error telling me to try PASV or PORT first. I use the gFTP client on my machine and as far as I know there is no option in this program to use either option either locally or remotely (on the server.)
Any ideas on this one?
I'd probably run the tar via ssh and collect the output directly where you want it like:
ssh -l root server 'cd /path/to/start && tar -czf - . ' >/path/to/tarfile.tgz
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