Tag Archive: SFTP

Basic Ubuntu VPS server backup via FTP or SSH SFTP

In my quest for the perfect “in my dreams” backup solution for my Ubuntu VPS, I created this very simple script which can be run as a cron job and can be easily modified to backup any amount of data to any remote FTP or SFTP server. You could very easily include a database backup …

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Easy network file management over SSH in Ubuntu

In my opinion, one of Ubuntu’s strongest tools is nautilus’ (the GNOME file manager’s) strong integration with remote files, such as those located on remote FTP, SFTP, WebDav, etc. While Windows has integration, it’s severely limited and really only supports drag-and-drop copying/pasting and open-in-place documents. Compared to nautilus’ ability to edit-in-place and supporting full file …

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