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Creating Encrypted FTP Backups With duplicity And duply On Debian Squeeze When you rent a dedicated server nowadays, almost all providers give you FTP backup space for your server on one of the provider's backup systems. This tutorial shows how you can use duplicity and duply to create encrypted (so that nobody with access to the backup server can read sensitive data in your backups) backups on the provider's remote backup server over FTP. duply is a duplicity wrapper script that allows us to use duplicity without interaction (i.e., you do not have to type in any passwords).
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This is what i am looking for. Its a good article on using ftp command for taking backups.
It's important to mention to keep your GnuPG keys somewhere safe off the Server you are backing up. You can just copy the directory /root/.gnupg/ and all contents to a safe place.
If you lose your gpg keys in case of hardware failure, or forget your passphrase, your backup is useless.
True story :(