Creating FTP accounts outside a virtual server's home

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#1 Sun, 08/16/2009 - 20:29
Jbates

Creating FTP accounts outside a virtual server's home

I currently own 4 servers and I'm trying to setup a backup system where, for example:

  • SRV 1 backs up its files on SRV 2
  • SRV 2 backs up its files on SRV 3

and so on, basically every server backs up its files on at least one different server

The problem is that I have only found GUI options that let you create a "backup" user with a directory inside another user's home directory, so:

what happens is that SRV 1 backs up its files on SRV 2's home directory, but when I back up SRV 2's files, they also include the backup from server 1, and it rapidly becomes a huge backup :)

Is there any way I can set up a new FTP user without being inside a virtual server's home directory?

Thanks

Sun, 08/16/2009 - 21:36
andreychek

Howdy,

Well, if all else fails -- you can manually edit the FTP users home directory, and change it to a directory outside the Virtual Server.

I'm not sure if that's something you can do within Virtualmin itself, but I don't think it would cause any problems to make that change manually.

-Eric

Tue, 08/18/2009 - 19:27
dean1979

Or just simply use ssh for backup like me :)

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