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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.
Comments
Bookmard-ed
Nice tut
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.
The FTP protocol has no standard method of querying used/free space, so yeah it will show up like that in 'df'.
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.
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
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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.
That's what I do as well.
ftp dedibackup-dc2.online.net
ftp dedibackup-dc3.online.net
is this OK?
Of course, a DC is backed up to a different DC, makes sense if you think about it.
This is cool. I had no idea you could use FTP like that (with the commands)
Niiiice! Thank you.
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?
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...
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.