Thanks for responding

I had thought that was *NIX oriented, but I'll give it a try.

Since my objective here is to relearn perl, even a failure is potentially worthwhile

Be sure to post back should you experience any issues.

with pleasure, but I'll try to spare you newbie's own mistakes

I had thought that was *NIX oriented, but I'll give it a try

The script that I use to transfer database backup files from our webserver makes use of Net::FTP. The script runs on a Windows 10 machine (using Strawberry Perl) at home so the backup files are offsite from the server.