Duplicacy with FTPS

jcw     Apr 29 7:59AM 2018 GUI

There's a router called FritzBox which is very widely used, at least in Germany and the Netherlands, as far as I know. It supports attaching disks to its USB port(s), and then making them available for internet access for pre-configured users. Access is via FTP or FTPS (or SMB, yikes...).

For backup on each other's sites, I'd like to use this with a friend who has the same FritzBox. All we need is to give each other a hard disk, set up proper access, and configure Duplicacy. right? Eh, well, not quite...

The problem: Duplicacy does not support FTP (AFAICT, and I'm aware of the fact that the user+pw travels in plaintext). I've tried SFTP, but that generates protocol errors. As I understand it, FTPS is not SFTP (FTP via SSH), but FTP over SSL/TLS.

Are there plans to support FTPS? (FTP is definitely not very attractive, since anyone could drop in and start messing with the encrypted backups, e.g. delete them...).


gchen    Apr 29 9:31PM 2018

Currently there isn't a plan to support FTPS, but this can change if more users want it...

Since you mentioned SMB, is it possible to use the local disk backend (using the SMB network path as the storage url)?


kevinvinv    May 4 11:41AM 2018

I would use FTPS if it were available.