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#19596 Is backup/upload with ftp, secure?

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Latest post by tampe125 on Monday, 17 March 2014 04:54 CDT

Monday, 17 March 2014 03:52 CDT

reginvels
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Description of my issue:

Read the article about: Upload to Remote FTP server

I am just wondering, shouldn´t you use some kind of encrytion, when using the FTP upload function? I guess you are transfering all your data and passwords etc.

/Regin

Monday, 17 March 2014 04:54 CDT

tampe125
Hello Regin,

first of all, if you want to protect your data, you should encrypt your archives using a password and not rely on the transfer method only.
Said that, if you want extra security you should use FTPS: the whole connection is made using the SSL protocol, that encrypts all the data transferred.

Davide Tampellini

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