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How To setup your Free 100 GB FTP Backup on your Dedibox from Online.net
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How To setup your Free 100 GB FTP Backup on your Dedibox from Online.net

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.

Reference:

http://www.cs.colostate.edu/helpdocs/ftp.html

Comments

  • sonicsonic Veteran

    Bookmard-ed

    Thanked by 1earl
  • Nice tut ;)

    Thanked by 1earl
  • I use CurlFTPFS to mount it http://i.sprk.co/150415-0842-1igxu.png

    The storage usage/available calculations aren't accurate, I'm using about 60GB. This has been mounted since I got the server and never dropped once.

  • rm_rm_ IPv6 Advocate, Veteran
    edited April 2015

    mikeyur said: The storage usage/available calculations aren't accurate

    The FTP protocol has no standard method of querying used/free space, so yeah it will show up like that in 'df'.

  • earlearl Member

    @mikeyur said:
    I use CurlFTPFS to mount it http://i.sprk.co/150415-0842-1igxu.png

    The storage usage/available calculations aren't accurate, I'm using about 60GB. This has been mounted since I got the server and never dropped once.

    Yes, you can mount it.. but I was reading the online.net forum and few people mentioned they had problems with CurlFtpFS.. I don't think it's actively maintained either so I didn't bother to mention it.

    Thanks for pointing it out thought.

  • SadySady Member

    Thank you so much for the tutorial :)
    BTW I've wrote some bash scripts to backup files/database automatically, If that is helpful for anyone then leave a message for me :)

    Thanked by 1earl
  • nagugnagug Member
    edited July 2015

    @Sady said:
    Thank you so much for the tutorial :)
    BTW I've wrote some bash scripts to backup files/database automatically, If that is helpful for anyone then leave a message for me :)

    >

    check my signature. I have done the automatic backups on online.net

  • I'm a retard and had no idea where to get the ftp login details. This pointed it out http://documentation.online.net/en/serveur-dedie/sauvegarde/backup-dedibackup

  • thanks for the tutorial, saved :)

  • the 100gb backup is quite great, I used fuse however and backup my vm's there.

  • Makkesk8 said: the 100gb backup is quite great, I used fuse however and backup my vm's there.

    That's what I do as well.

  • netomxnetomx Moderator, Veteran

    earl said: For DC3:

    ftp dedibackup-dc2.online.net

    For DC2:

    ftp dedibackup-dc3.online.net

    is this OK?

  • rm_rm_ IPv6 Advocate, Veteran

    netomx said: is this OK?

    Of course, a DC is backed up to a different DC, makes sense if you think about it.

    Thanked by 3vimalware yomero netomx
  • This is cool. I had no idea you could use FTP like that (with the commands)

  • Niiiice! Thank you.

  • GM2015GM2015 Member
    edited September 2015

    I don't get this ftp space. Yesterday it worked nicely, today directory listing times out. I can login via firefox to dc's ftp storage, but it doesn't work on windows local mounting or winscp.

    Timeout detected.
    Could not retrieve directory listing
    Error listing directory '/'.

  • Can't edit that comment, but for noobs like me this could be handy http://linuxconfig.org/mount-remote-ftp-directory-host-locally-into-linux-filesystem

  • Looking at utilising this backup space for my server.

    Is it not perhaps easier to automount the FTP server as a 'local' drive and then just RSYNC your backups to it?

  • PulsedMediaPulsedMedia Member, Patron Provider

    Some people actually use this? :O
    I always thought no one really uses their provided FTP backup space

  • Anyone test this tuts? 100 Gb ftp back up for free sounds interesting right?

  • Nope, it comes included to the price.
    You can find FTP in your web console.

  • Is there any way to use SFTP or FTPS for added security? I don't like the idea of FTP and plain text for login...

  • GM2015GM2015 Member
    edited January 2016

    Encypt with gnupg before upload. Good luck decoding that without the private key and password.

    Define those variables and you're okay to go.

    https://paste.ee/p/oULGF

    edit:

    I've tried with encryption with online.net storage and it didn't work.

    jeromeza said: Is there any way to use SFTP or FTPS for added security? I don't like the idea of FTP and plain text for login...

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