Subj : backup for windows pc?
To   : August Abolins
From : Jas Hud
Date : Thu Sep 21 2023 23:21:33

  To: August Abolins
  Re: backup for windows pc?
  By: August Abolins to Deon George on Thu Sep 21 2023 11:22 pm

 > From Newsgroup: micronet.comp
 >
 > Hello Deon George!
 >
 > ** On Friday 22.09.23 - 11:28, Deon George wrote to August Abolins:
 >
 >  >> I tried restic -r sftp:user@server.com:/restic/archive
 >  >>
 >  >> ..and it complained:
 >  >>
 >  >> Fatal: Create repository at sftp:user@server.com:/restic/
 >  >> archive failed: cmd.Start: exec: "ssh": executable file not
 >  >> found in %PATH%.
 >
 >  DG> Right, you would need SSH as well if you wanted to pipe it through
 >  DG> SSH/SFTP.
 >
 > So.. restic is not all-in-one and still relies on external
 > progs?
 >
 >
 >  DG> I use an S3 target, ie : -r s3:http://minio:9000/bucket as my target,
 >  DG> with environment variables containing the authentication credentials.
 >
 > S3 is Amazon's cloud space?
 >
 >
 >  >> I tried the -o sftp.command="prog" parameter where prog is
 >  >> putty.exe with full path to its location, but it claimed it was
 >  >> not found.
 >
 >  DG> Why putty?
 >
 > I dunno.. it just seemed like a good one to try and see if
 > restic could at least *find* it.
 >
 >
 >  >> I had better luck with winscp:
 >  >> winscp sftp://user@server.com:2222//enc/archive
 >
 >  DG> Does winscp provide SFTP? (I dont use it, so dont know). You might be
 >  DG> able to use -o sftp.command=winscp ?
 >
 > Not sure if winscp can be utilized in place of the SSH exec
 > that restic is looking for.   I wish there were more examples
 > of usage out there.


winscp.com /script=script.txt

contents of script.txt

-- begin --

open sftp://USERNAME:PASSWORD@DOMAIN.COM/MIDGETPORN/INCOMING/ -hostkey="ssh-ed25519 255 1234SDFSFS4FS4S(THIS IS YOUR HASH)DAF4AS4DF4SDF4F4DSF4SDF5678"

# Your command 1
# Your command 2
put c:\temp\MIDGITS.*
# Execute the script using a command like:
# "C:\WinSCP\WinSCP.exe" /log="C:\writable\path\to\log\WinSCP.log" /ini=nul /script="C:\path\to\script\script.txt"
exit


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