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? Dave -- 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.
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
Dave Stevens 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'd probably run the tar via ssh and collect the output directly where you want it like: ssh -l root server 'cd /path/to/start && tar -czf - . ' >/path/to/tarfile.tgz -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com