Hi All,
Thought I'd share a few simple steps on setting up your Free 100 GB FTP Backup service on your Dedibox server.
To start, please head over to the online Documentation on activating your service.
Activating your FTP Backup Service.
Probably a good idea to create a new password for the FTP account. FTP transfers are not encrypted so your data is sent in plain text. Currently using mine to store Proxmox ISO's and templates, it's not really suggested to transfer sensitive data over FTP.
Once your backup service is active, we can start with the following..
Zip / Unzip
Your Dedibox comes with 100GB or 1000 files which ever comes first.. So it's best to compress your files before uploading to your FTP server.
Installing Zip and Unzip:
apt-get install zip unzip
To Zip a file:
zip NameForFile file1 file2 file3
To Unzip:
unzip NameOfFile
Or install WinSCP a FTP, SFTP, SCP Client for Windows.
Login to your FTP server
SSH into your server and issue the following:
For DC3:
ftp dedibackup-dc2.online.net
For DC2:
ftp dedibackup-dc3.online.net
Input the following:
- login name
- password
Enabling Passive mode
Once logged in you may receive this message
500 FTP active mode is forbidden, passive mode is mandatory
Enter passive mode:
passive
Useful Commands
Type ? at the ftp> prompt for a list of commands and ? NameOfCommand for an explanation
To change directory on FTP server:
cd /destination/directory
To list the files in the FTP directory:
ls
To change directory on local server:
lcd /destination/directory
To list the files in the local directory:
!ls
To Download a file from Remote FTP to Local server:
get FileName
To upload a file from Local server to Remote FTP:
put FileName
To terminate connection with current FTP server:
close
To terminate connection and exit from FTP:
quit
Well that's the basics. There are more commands in the reference link section I've listed below.