Using Net::FTP over a secure ftp connectin

hi

I need to transfer files (some big db sql dumps, every night) over a secure ftp connection, the ftpd server being on port 22 and using a SSL/TLS encryption mechanism.

Are there Perl packages available to handle Net::FTP objects over encrypted connections ?

I realized an automated secure file transfer (running as a cron job every hour) using the SSH SCP (secure copy) command and the perl module Expect. Looked like this:

use Expect;

my $prog = '/usr/bin/scp';
my $user = 'someone@localhost';

$scp = Expect->spawn($prog, ("$user:FILE", '/tmp'));

(...)


Consult the module docs and SSH docs for more information. This is definetely a way to implement secure file transfers using standard tools.

There is a Net::SFTP module that you could try. There is also a Net::SCP module as well. Both are available from CPAN (and probably ASPN, too, if you use windows).

http://search.cpan.org/doc/IVAN/Net-SCP-0.06/SCP.pm
http://search.cpan.org/doc/BTROTT/N...lib/Net/SFTP.pm

jaa