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Recently I’ve been looking at ways to backup some of my documents and photos online. There’s a number of options out there, dropbox .mac and backblaze to name a few but it seemed a little crazy to shell out cash for someone to host my files on a server when I’m already paying web hosts to do exactly the same thing. I needed a way to sync files over ftp and it needed to be automated.

I opened up my favorite ftp client, Panic’s Trasmit and couldn’t for the life of me work out how to automate folder syncing. After some googling I still found nothing so I fired off an e-mail to Panic. They came back with the solution which works perfectly

1. Open Automator (located in your Applications folder). You will be asked what template you want to use for your workflow. Choose “iCal Alarm”.

2. In Automator’s “Library” on the left side of the window, click “Internet”. There, you will find Transmit’s “Upload”, “Download” and “Synchronize” actions. Drag the action(s) you need into your worklow and configure.

3. Save your workflow. iCal will be launched automatically and you can choose when and how often you want the task to run.