Re: backup for windows pc?
  By: August Abolins to Deon George on Thu Sep 21 2023 06:53 pm

 > Having some issues with restic.
 >
 > 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%.

Right, you would need SSH as well if you wanted to pipe it through SSH/SFTP.

I use an S3 target, ie : -r s3:http://minio:9000/bucket as my target, with
environment variables containing the authentication credentials.

 > 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.

Why putty?

 > I had better luck with winscp:
 > winscp sftp://user@server.com:2222//enc/archive

Does winscp provide SFTP? (I dont use it, so dont know). You might be able to
use -o sftp.command=winscp ?


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