Free solution to backup folders to external SFTP server with shadow copy

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I have an account in university on Linux machine with 10TB of free space accessible via SFTP. I would like to backup my Windows 7 x64 laptop to university. Currently I am using rsync+cygwin, but backup is pretty slow (without shadow copy) and I hate console window appearing every day on my screen when I login.

So I am looking for something like Windows Backup but with support for SFTP. Combination of tools will work too.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 14 '16 at 20:10

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Duplicity is a nice backup tool written in Python, and there are various frontends or reimplementations (e.g. Duplicati).

It supports encryption and a lot of different backends (scp/sftp being one of them).

edited Jun 14 '16 at 20:10

Nathan Hartley

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answered Mar 05 '10 at 02:58

blueyed

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 05 '10 at 00:43

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not the entire solution but this should be a part of it you can probably use piping, or backup locally, then use that on SFTP/winscp i suppose.

answered Mar 05 '10 at 00:43

Journeyman Geek

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 08 '10 at 21:03

SyncBack Pro will do what you want very neatly. It isn't free but it is quite cheap. I use it to back up my remote email server to my Windows box, as well as running all my other backup jobs.

You could probably also rig something using the cheaper SyncBack SE and an SSH tunnel using something like Tunnelier.

Free solution to backup folders to external SFTP server with shadow copy

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