[rdiff-backup-users] Backup from FTP via curlFTPFS

[Matt]

Hi,

I've recently been helping some friends backup data from a shared web 
host to which they only have FTP access.  After some trial and quite a 
lot of errors, I've found that I can do this using curlftpfs (an FTP 
FUSE filesystem) as the source for rdiff-backup.  My approach hasn't 
been very scientific but I've got it working reliably using the options 
below:

--snip--
# Mount single-threaded and readonly
/usr/bin/curlftpfs -s -r user:address@hidden /some/mount/point

# Backup to local disk (inodes may change between mounts?)
rdiff-backup --no-compare-inode /some/mount/point /path/to/backup

# Done
unmount /some/mount/point
--snip--

Setup was rdiff-backup 1.2.5 and curlftpfs 0.9.1 (libcurl/7.18.2 fuse/2.5).

It's rather slow but, with only FTP access available, it's a pretty good 
solution.  Hope someone finds this useful.

Regards,

Matt