Re: [Duplicity-talk] Duplicity and FTPS (FTP Secure)

[Marcin Zajączkowski]

On 2010-05-01 20:34, Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> At this time, no.  However, it should be just a matter of tunneling FTP
> through SSL like Secure FTP does with SSH.  Perhaps someone could write
> a wrapper for us.

Could you point some helpful file(s) in Duplicity with some hints in
case someone could be interested?


> Why not use SFTP?  It would be more secure than SSL.

This is primary FTP server without shell accounts. It seems it was
easier for admins to set FTPS than SFTP there being able to make
bandwidth throttling. It's planned to disable plain FTP because of
security issues (that password is also used for other services).


Regards
Marcin



> Marcin Zajączkowski wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> I would like to keep backup on a server which gives FTPS (FTP Secure aka
>> FTP over SSL [1] *not* SFTP) access only. As I read NcFTP doesn't
>> support it.
>>
>> Is there way to use Duplicity with FTPS?
>>
>>
>> [1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTPS
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> Marcin