Using WinSCP to schedule backup transfers

[SneakyDave]

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Using WinSCP to schedule backup transfers - How to get your backups safely and securely transferred from your site to your Windows machine.

This guide was originally published on http://xenadmins.com

Many site owners have their site backups stored on their site's server, but don't have an automated way to transfer their backup files to their Windows machine. It's good to have backups, but better to have them, or at least the most recent one, stored somewhere else than the server it came from.

This guide describes how to use WinSCP and Putty's...

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[Andy.N]

How about a guide for us Mac users?

 

[SneakyDave]

I could do that. I have a mac

 

[Aivaras]

At this point, Pageant is waiting to use your private key to connections to your server, but it isn't configured to run at startup. To change that, create a shortcut to pageant in your startup folder and change the properties to include your private key when it starts up, such as this...

This step can be simplified by creating a shortcut to the private key file (.ppk). Pageant will be launched automatically to open the .ppk filetype.

 

[countryside]

How about a guide for us Mac users?

I could do that. I have a mac

@SneakyDave, do you know a way to do this for mac users? I really need one. WinSCP is not available for us, and we need a way to feel confident that our site is safe. I have been researching this for weeks. Please, make us one.

 

[SneakyDave]

I'll do some investigation. Thanks

 

[countryside]

I'll do some investigation. Thanks

Thanks so much! I think the solution is using Automator, but I have no idea to connect Automator to my SFTP client. I need a way to connect my server files to finder.app, and then to Automator.