Schedule Site Backups

[almo136]

Hi

Does anyone know of an app (preferably free) that I could use to schedule backups of all my sites from my server (hosted with [a web hosting company]) to my PC. Maybe a FTP program that has scheduling functionality?

It's getting to be a bit of a pain to do this manually.

Thanks!

[edited by: phranque at 3:53 am (utc) on Jan. 21, 2009]
[edit reason] hosting specifics [/edit]

[bill]

rsync will do a nice job if your host supports it. You can run it from batch files or cron jobs.

[thecoalman]

I use ipswitch for FTP, it has a synchronizing utility. Basically it will mirror whatever you want on local machine. It has filters for folders and files you don't want backed up. Once the initial backup is complete you can set it to only download files that have been updated or are new, it will also delete files on the local machine that no longer exist on the remote machine. It can be scheduled or run manually, In a nutshell it will maintain an exact copy of whatever you want and not consume a lot of bandwidth doing it.

Having said that purchasing it might not be the best option just for that feature as there other options available. I'm not sure if any of the free FTP programs have similar features.