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ittbg

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Registered: 2018-10-10

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Backup to FTP

Sorry for the newbie question, is it possible to backup to FTP server as backup-point? If yes - how to do it? 
Thank you

admin

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Registered: 2017-04-21

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Re: Backup to FTP

FTP is an ancient non secure protocol. XSIBackup can backup over SSH, which is a modern alternative to FTP.
All Linux OSs and ESXi come with SSH built into even their minimal distributions.

ittbg

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Registered: 2018-10-10

Posts: 2

Re: Backup to FTP

Thank you , how to do backup over SSH?

admin

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Re: Backup to FTP

You can backup over IP via SSH by just setting the backup point to a remote computer, where you have three values separated by colons, which represent [b]IP:Port:Remote path[/b], i.e.:

--backup-point=10.0.0.3:22:/your/backup/destination

All [b][https://33hops.com/xsibackup-using-backup-programs.html]backup programs[/url][/b] support SSH over IP backups except [b]Vmkfstools[/b], we are ultimating [b][https://33hops.com/xsitools-vmfs-deduplication.html](c)XSITools[/url][/b] compatibility with SSH backups at the time of writing this.