Planned for 11.34 SFTP and port assignment for remote FTP backups in WHM [Case 34153]

[cPanelDavidG]

And switches can be tricked too.
Using Insecure Protocols – FTP » Tevora Blog

Thanks, I'll make note of that.

To me these features are not often demanded because too many people are expecting them to be already there.
E.g DropBox and the outrage when they made clear how exactly they handle and encrypt the data.

Different people have different expectations, hence the feature request process to allow everyone to discuss their perspective and allow us to act accordingly. Also, as for DropBox, the issue was they claimed to encrypt the data but they did not.

Encrypted transfer. Encrypted data. The question is why not?

So far, that seems to be the general trend of discussion. We already plan to do encrypted transfer (hence the case number in the title of this thread), encrypted data at the destination is a different feature request that is being processed separately.

To convince developers I need to know what is currently their priority ;-) Would be interesting.

You can view some of what we're working on via the Abbreviated Roadmap sticky in this forum.

[fulleffect]

We already plan to do encrypted transfer (hence the case number in the title of this thread)...

You can view some of what we're working on via the Abbreviated Roadmap sticky in this forum.

Hi David,

I have just spent 10 minutes looking for the reference of SFTP Backup in the Abbreviated Roadmap sticky and corresponding links, but found no reference, please could you point me in the direction of this roadmap reference...

p.s: We have just hit this stumbling block ourselves with having disabled FTP on our servers and only using SFTP, this is preventing us from using WHM FTP Backup and are having to resort to local backup and then RSYNC...

[shaun]

Would like to see cpbackup have the option of using a secure transfer method (SFTP) for remote backups. Would be cool if it supported maybe SCP too.

[Crothers]

Also rsync to another host instead of a directory.

Rsync should be flat filed as well if we choose, as in not tarballs.

[bhanuprasad1981]

+1 for sftp i had a situation when ftp was not working only way was sftp.

[HostCenter IL]

+1 More supported protocols are always good, and allow administrators to do things that weren't possible before. For some SFTP is the preferred option and they might currently use FTP only to make it work with cPanel, which shouldn't be the case.

[cPanelDavidG]

Update: This is something we are working on for version 11.34

[cPanelDavidG]

SFTP backups are already planned for version 11.34. I will merge this discussion into the existing discussion on SFTP.

Crothers: The new backup system will be pluggable so you can build your own plugin for that in the event we do not bundle a plugin to accommodate that.