Ways to backup files from a Linux server on to Windows 7?


  1. Posts : 153
    Windows
       #1

    Ways to backup files from a Linux server on to Windows 7?


    I have a web site that is hosted on a shared web hosting provider's site that runs on a Linux platform. Once in a while I'd like to log in via ftp and back up all the files to my computer. The issue is that Linux file system allows case-sensitive file and directory names, when Windows does not. So when using Windows Explorer in Windows 7, I log in using ftp and do select-all and then paste to a folder on my desktop, I get one big confusing result.

    Let me show. For instance, the directories on the Linux server have this structure:

    -Folder: file
    --File: index.php
    -Folder: File
    --File: index.php
    -Folder: FILE
    --File: index.php

    Then on my Windows 7 I get this:

    -Folder: file
    --File: index.php
    --File: index(1).php
    --File: index(2).php
    -Folder: file(1)
    --File: (It's empty)
    -Folder: file(2)
    --File: (It's empty)

    As you see this is not what it was before.

    So my question is -- how can I back up these files from the server to my Windows machine so that I can possibly restore them later without any issues?
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  2. Posts : 6,285
    Windows 10 Pro X64
       #2

    Can you zip them on the server then backup the zip?

    There is no way you can simply download them to a windows based computer, so zip (or rar) is the only choice I see.
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