Quoting Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists at gmail.com>: > On 9/29/09, Dave Stevens <geek at 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 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- When addiction becomes commonplace in a society, people become addicted not only to alcohol and drugs, but to a thousand other destructive pursuits: money, power, dysfunctional relationships, or video games. A social perspective on addiction does not deny individual differences in vulnerability to addiction, but it removes them from the foreground of attention, because social determinants are more powerful.