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Hello Akeeba support

In the extended configuration i chose cURL sftp backup, this works. But i can't do a restore. If I upload sftp (ssh) server I get the error "Y". See attachment.

What am I doing wrong?

I want to outsource via sftp the backup and can also restore it directly. Is that even possible? Or what alternative do I have to choose? Except drop box, etc.

kind regards
Beat

I am confused. Please tell me again how you are trying to restore the backup and what sort of error you get. Unfortunately, your screen shots don't help because I can't read the Swiss and I can't paste it into Google Translate.

Excuse me, now i have attach screenshots in english.

The Problem is, with "Upload to Remote SFTP (SSH) server using cURL" it connection it works, but not with the Option "Upload to Remote SFTP (SSH) server" please take a loot at the new screenshots.

And: if i try to restore a Backup with the "Upload to Remote SFTP (SSH) server using cURL" variant so i become the failure message "The backup archive could not be located"

Thank you for your patience, now I understand.

In order to use the restore function from the Manage Backups screen, the backup archive must be on the local server. Some of the cloud storage backups, like S3 and Dropbox, can "Fetch back to server" before you do a restore. I don't think FTP has that capability. You would see a blue button on the right side that says "Manage Remote Backups".

Thank you for the explanation. So I'm gonna switch to dropbox. It would be great if you could have this option via ftp or sftp as well. Because Online Storrage are very expensive for my number of websites.

With the exception of email, which thankfully not many people use any more, FTP is the hardest post processing method to use. The file part that you're working with has to be totally uploaded by FTP within the PHP timeout value. This means that generally you have to use very small part sizes with FTP.

Some of the more modern cloud services use "chunking" to break the file into parts, upload the parts, then reassemble the chunks back into a single archive part. It is a much friendlier method and lets you use larger or even single part sizes.

I think that is why FTP doesn't seem to get the same love in the development process that cloud storage does.

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