FTP Options

To Preform a backup to an FTP site you must enable the Perform backup to FTP site option. This can be found on the Item Options tab.
 

The destination folder now specifies an directory on the FTP server (rather than a directory on the local machine, or LAN).  Note: FTP directory names use forward slashes as opposed to backslashes.

A directory must be specified.  Even if you specify only the root directoy (which would be '/')

General FTP Options


 

Server address You must enter the host name of the FTP server.  This may be entered as the host IP address, or if you have DNS support, the DNS name.
User name This must be a valid user name for the FTP site.  Note: You will probably not be able to log in as anonymous. It is unlikely that a system administrator is going to enable anonymous users write access to a site.
Password Valid password for the above user
FTP Timeout This is the amount of time in seconds that DataArmour will wait for responses from the FTP server before timing out.  If your connection is slow, you should increase this value.

 
FTP Format Items

After DataArmour has retrieved a directory listing from the FTP server, it needs to examine each line and understand which parts of the line make up the attributes, size, date, time and filename.

Due to the many different FTP servers in use today, DataArmour enables you to educate it in order that is can understand different listings from different servers.  Writing and understanding the format editor requires some technical knowledge. If you are unsure how to write the FTP expressions, you should contact your system administrator.

This section of the FTP options editor lists the available FTP list format expressions.  From here you can add, edit or remove expressions.