As long as you were smart enough to choose a web host that allows SSH, I've thought up an easy/lazy way to do this!

From your local machine:

rsync -e ssh -av yourusername@webhostserver.com:~/ Dropbox/

Type your password when prompted then sit back and watch.

(This assumes that the folder you are in on your local computer has a Dropbox folder and that the files you want to back up are in your home folder on your web hosts' server.)

Holler at brie@unixsysadmin.org or http://www.unixsysadmin.org/contact.html with your thoughts.

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