My backup FTP script is NOT GOOD.. it exhausted my memory ?? on the webserver caushing the server to ‘crash’ / not react for 4 hours, even connecting my monitor to the server: I could type my username, but login: nope ..

So message to self: how the hell can I FTP 40GB of data via a shell script without exhausting my memory .. <sigh> …

rebooting (fingers always crossed) and after 5 minutes the server was up again