Yummy as backup

[CWolfe]

Been using yummy ftp to sync my main server with my back-up server and it's amazing.  However I would also like  to do daily back-ups of just my data folder and not replace/sync the folder each time.  I'd like to end up with different folders ie:  data.1, data.2, data.3 or something like that.

Anyone have a suggestion?  I'm on 1.8.3.

Thanks.
Frank

[JD]

Unfortunately there's nothing built into Yummy to do such a thing, because it was never designed as a back up app.

However, I would expect that you should be able to put together something in AppleScript. You'd need to write the part which creates a unique folder (may date stamped?) on the server every day (Yummy will let you create the folder), then you can use Yummy's scripting capability to sync or simply upload your data into that folder.

[CWolfe]

Thank you.  I'll try that. 

[CWolfe]

Hi,

I've been reading and re-reading your reply and finally decided I partially disagree.

While I agree that YummyFTP did not start out as a backup solution, it seems to me it has evolved to that in may ways.  Why else have a scheduler that lets you sync every hour on the hour, or every minute on the minute, if not to backup files?

Adding an option to append file/folder names rather than replace them would seem like a nice feature that would add to the competitiveness of the program over others.  I think I will pitch it on the suggestion board and see what happens.  Maybe someday...

Thanks,

Frank

[JD]

Hi Frank,

The scheduler was added to automatically sync a local copy of a website to a server where the site is hosted. That is not a backup operation, but simply an update process.

A true backup program would record things like Finder meta data, resource forks, owner / group, permissions, ACLs, etc.  Yummy FTP does not support any of that because the FTP and SFTP protocols themselves do not (for the most part).

Certainly though, I could add an additional sync mode that would perform a copy to a datestamped folder. If that's all you're after, and are willing to accept that 'backed up' files may not be identical to the originals (due to missing meta data, resource fork data, etc) then it should be doable.

[CWolfe]

Thanks for the offer, but I would not worry about it unless you have 10 other people asking for the same thing.

Thanks.
f.