Win Scp - How to backup your remote web site with WinScp synchronisation capabilities ?

Card Puncher Data Processing

Synchronizing our website in Console Mode

FileManager - WinScp have a console mode. See below a example script on how to use it to synchronize your remote website.

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Nicolas>cd C:\Program Files\WinSCP
C:\Program Files\WinSCP>winscp /console
winscp> option batch on
batch        on
winscp> option confirm off
confirm      off
winscp> open ftp://login:passord@yourwebsite
Connecting to yourwebsite ...
Connected with yourwebsite. Waiting for welcome message...
Connected
Starting the session...
Reading remote directory...
Session started.
Active session: [1] login@yourwebsite
winscp> synchronize local C:\www /www
Comparing...
Local 'C:\www' <= Remote '/www'
Synchronizing...
Local 'C:\www' <= Remote '/www'
.htaccess                 |          0 KiB |    0.0 KiB/s | ascii  | 100%
index.php                 |          0 KiB |    0.1 KiB/s | ascii  | 100%
license.txt               |         14 KiB |    2.1 KiB/s | ascii  | 100%
memo                      |          0 KiB |    2.1 KiB/s | ascii  |   0%
images                    |          0 KiB |    1.4 KiB/s | ascii  |   0%
logo_ovh.jpg              |          1 KiB |    1.0 KiB/s | binary | 100%
outils.gif                |          8 KiB |    1.3 KiB/s | binary | 100%
question.gif              |          6 KiB |    1.4 KiB/s | binary | 100%
index.html                |          3 KiB |    1.2 KiB/s | ascii  | 100%
powered.gif               |          6 KiB |    1.4 KiB/s | binary | 100%
quota.cgi                 |          3 KiB |    1.2 KiB/s | ascii  | 100%
memo.html                 |          0 KiB |    1.1 KiB/s | ascii  | 100%
readme.html               |          7 KiB |    1.1 KiB/s | ascii  | 100%
sitemap.xml               |          1 KiB |    1.0 KiB/s | ascii  | 100%
sitemap.xml.gz            |          0 KiB |    0.8 KiB/s | binary | 100%
wiki                      |          0 KiB |    0.8 KiB/s | binary |   0%
.htaccess.dist            |          1 KiB |    0.8 KiB/s | binary | 100%
COPYING                   |         17 KiB |    1.2 KiB/s | binary | 100%
README                    |          0 KiB |    1.3 KiB/s | binary | 100%
VERSION                   |          0 KiB |    1.3 KiB/s | binary | 100%
...............

If you want to know more about each command, you have to go to the Script Command page.

How to schedule it ?

We need first to create a script file.

# Automatically answer all prompts negatively not to stall
# the script on errors
option batch on
# Disable overwrite confirmations that conflict with the previous
option confirm off
# Connect using a password
# open user:[email protected]
# Connect
open [email protected]
# Synchronize
synchronize local C:\www /www
# Disconnect
close
# Exit WinSCP
exit

In the synchronize command above :

synchronize local C:\www /www

the “local” option specify that changes from remote directory “/www” are applied to local directory “C:\www”

Here is the documentation of this command.

Save the script to the file example.txt. To execute the script file use the following command.

winscp.exe /console /script=example.txt

And to schedule it, use a software scheduler as for Windows Xp : Scheduled Task.

Reference

Want to know more, it's here





Discover More
Card Puncher Data Processing
Backup

Backing up properly doesn't 100% remove all issue, just 99.999% removes it (that is why we keep MULTIPLE backups, 3 or 5 at a minimum. When you want to do a backup from your web site, you have two options...



Share this page:
Follow us:
Task Runner