Automated website backup

[Tunney]

At the moment, I've got a blog running WordPress 2.0 on my website. I've set WordPress up to e-mail me a back-up of the mySQL database every day. This then goes to my gmail e-mail account where it's archived. It works well so I'm wondering about how to backup the other files used in my blog via an automated process to a local drive.

What do people recommend? Is there a simple way to schedule an ftp download under Windows? Would compressing and e-mailing an entire website (100-200MB) using a cron job be feasible? Is there any software out there that makes scheduled backups easy?

Cheers!

 

[Tunney]

Possibly set up a connection with another computer...say yours at home, and every night, if your computer is on, do the backup via FTP or a similar protocol. If your computer isn't on, send it via email.

Is there software that will automate this for me? Something that will sit in the system tray of my home machine perhaps?

 

[Tunney]

I don't think that my access is full, but I've got enough access to set-up cron jobs and use various server-side software over ssh. The server is running Linux.