Subj : backup for windows pc?
To   : August Abolins
From : Deon George
Date : Fri Sep 22 2023 14:51:12

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

Hey Aug,

 > So.. restic is not all-in-one and still relies on external
 > progs?

It is. But I think your intermixing "transport" with "backup".

Restic backs up and can be used on its own to another drive/directory, another restic, or an S3 target without the need for any other software.

If you want to control the transport of the backups (ie: over SFTP), then yes, you need to provide the tool that provides that transport.

 > S3 is Amazon's cloud space?

S3 is a protocol for storing files. Its is not "Amazon", but yes amazon does provide an S3 storage service. Other clouds provider their own S3 storage service capabilities as well.

At home, I use "minio" to provide me with an S3 storage target.

 > 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.

I'm not understanding why "winscp" was successful using an sftp:// target - and if you dont have "sftp" installed, then it probably does do SFTP - since you said it worked.


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