[X-Unix] Setting up an SFTP server? Or possibly an SSH option?

[John Harrold]

Sometime in August Rad Craig assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| I am trying to setup an SFTP server to download copies of our website  
| backups.  We make a full backup once a week, just over 2GB right now.

You should consider just using rsync over ssh from your website to your
backup server. You can run it nightly, and after the first sync, subsequent
syncs will take no time at all. It's pretty simple:

rsync -av -e "ssh -2" user at webserver:/path/to/files/ /local/path/to/files/

If you setup your ssh key's you can do this without having to type in your
password and you can set it up as a cron job.

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