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Post by aces40love on Mar 7, 2007 6:32:46 GMT 7
Hi. I have an N2100 that is used for backup purposes for an N5200BR at my office. I also have an N5200 at home. I want to backup the "backup" on the N2100 at my office to my house (N5200). I have found a program called Flash FXP that is an FTP Program that allows scheduling. I have enabled FTP on port 21 on the N2100 and also configured my router for FTP port forwarding on port 21. Question is, how can I access the N2100 at my office from home in order to start an FTP backup? Thanks for all of your help.
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Post by aces40love on Mar 8, 2007 5:30:13 GMT 7
Ok. Got the FTP program to work. Now, is there a way to secure the folders? Some folders should not be "public" or accessible without a password. How can I do this?
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Post by aces40love on Mar 8, 2007 6:00:06 GMT 7
Through doing some more reading, I have downloaded N2100-FTPAccess-1.0.02 from Thecus Wiki. From what I understand, this will allow me to protect folders from FTPAccess. How do I install this file to the N2100? Once installed, is it possible to create passwords so that folders do show up in FTP software however are not accessible unless a password is entered?
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Post by dbridges on Mar 8, 2007 9:25:47 GMT 7
Through doing some more reading, I have downloaded N2100-FTPAccess-1.0.02 from Thecus Wiki. From what I understand, this will allow me to protect folders from FTPAccess. How do I install this file to the N2100? Once installed, is it possible to create passwords so that folders do show up in FTP software however are not accessible unless a password is entered? Permissions are based on users and groups. The owner of the file or directory dictates the user level. The owners group dictates group level permissions and world is world... Ultimately what you're going to have to do is become very familiar with the chmod, chown, and the commands for creating users and groups so that you can manage the permissions. If you want to restrict access you need to do it by user. Create a user which has access to the files and use that to make the ftp connection. Basically you're probably going to have to get your hands dirty. Do you have ssh installed. You'll need it to confirm the permissions. I expect that you dont given that you're asking about installing the ftp access module. You need to extract the module (.mod file) from the .tgz file that you downloaded. Some zip programs can manage it. Some cant. Personally i copy them to the n2100 and untar them there using ssh. Once you have the .mod file go to the modules section of the admin webgui and load and enable the module. Because i haven't had a need to play with what you're trying to do i can't give you much more info than this. To be honest you're probably better of doing some real investigation into SFTP which is more secure than standard FTP. Particularly given what you're trying to do. What volume of data are you talking about anyway. Another alternative could be to put together a script on the n2100 to tar up your data and pop it on the n2100 web page. You could then download it from home using another cron job and wget without opening up ftp ports.
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Post by marty on Mar 8, 2007 19:44:34 GMT 7
Through doing some more reading, I have downloaded N2100-FTPAccess-1.0.02 from Thecus Wiki. From what I understand, this will allow me to protect folders from FTPAccess. How do I install this file to the N2100? Once installed, is it possible to create passwords so that folders do show up in FTP software however are not accessible unless a password is entered? You install the module thru web interface, System >> Module. FTPAccess module only allows or disallows FTP Access to certain share folders. There is not password protection.
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Post by aces40love on Mar 23, 2007 5:07:12 GMT 7
I'm unfortunately talking about a large amount of info....probably around 40 gigs....the data is broken down by folders so I can transfer a portion of the total at a time....i plan on transfering some files a day at a time...right now i'm still trying to figure out the info on your post above...
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Post by dbridges on Mar 23, 2007 5:51:44 GMT 7
I'm unfortunately talking about a large amount of info....probably around 40 gigs....the data is broken down by folders so I can transfer a portion of the total at a time....i plan on transfering some files a day at a time...right now i'm still trying to figure out the info on your post above... It turns out that wget supperts FTP as well. One thing to think about is the wget allows for download resumption in the advent of a failure. A possible process would be to tar (tgz) your files up a portion at a time and checksum it. wget the checksum then wget the file then check the file when wget finishes. If the checksum doesn't match then try and wget it again (abort on second failure and send email)
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Post by ryebank on Mar 23, 2007 19:15:26 GMT 7
For the first 40 gig I would consider taking your n2100 to the n5200 so a LAN copy can be usedfor the first backup - changes then would presumably be much less - as the n2100 is pretty compact it wouldn't be too difficult to carry in to work
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