automated backup or file transfer via ftp to remote site

I would like to automatically (at a scheduled time) transfer files, or alternatively backup to, a remote ftp site.  This has to work on Server 2003.  I tried netdrive, but it does not seem compatible with windows server 2003.

Thanks.

- Shawn

One way is to use MS' "scheduled tasks" to kick off a .bat file at a given time. Check out tools like lftp for Windows that you might reference in that .bat file.

Tools like rsync or scp are probably better for this sort of thing, though.  Any reason you want to use FTP?  Or is it just the devil you know?

I agree - rsync would be a fantastic way to backup data files - and you can do so multiple times in a day without chewing up your bandwidth as it just grabs changes in files (though it might grab the whole file in a Windows system as opposed t oblock level changes in a Linux system).  You would need to look into cygwin I believe.

Alternatively, you might also look up FileZilla Client (and lftp as Rog already mentioned), not sure how well it works through command line but I think it will let you synchronize and only get changed files.