Frankly it makes no sense to me why this isn't already available, but there should be an option to use FTPS (Secure FTP, uses SSL) to transfer backups.
We provide NAS backup for clients but do not provide SSH to connect to the backup, currently only FTP and FTPS is available, but unfortunately cPanel only allows FTP which is insecure.
NONE of our customers want to backup their entire server insecurely, I can't believe this isn't already available ...
I like this idea 
I'm back with good news! This request has been added to the backlog of one of our feature teams! I don't know what version it will be developed for at this point, but as soon as we're committed to a version for it I'll let you know!
I'm back with good news! This request has been added to the backlog of one of our feature teams! I don't know what version it will be developed for at this point, but as soon as we're committed to a version for it I'll let you know!
Well you cannot believe it. Me too. I posted your idea 01-13-2009 in the forum.
http://forums.cpanel.net/f145/remote-backup-via-ssl-encrypted-archives-case-55650-a-104277.html
SSL on FTP and encryption of backup archives.
http://features.cpanel.net/responses/backup-destination-ftp-with-ssl-tls-support
http://features.cpanel.net/responses/remote-backup-via-ssl-and-with-encrypted-archives
Well you cannot believe it. Me too. I posted your idea 01-13-2009 in the forum.
http://forums.cpanel.net/f145/remote-backup-via-ssl-encrypted-archives-case-55650-a-104277.html
SSL on FTP and encryption of backup archives.
http://features.cpanel.net/responses/backup-destination-ftp-with-ssl-tls-support
http://features.cpanel.net/responses/remote-backup-via-ssl-and-with-encrypted-archives
I'd really like to see this feature in WHM anytime soon. FTP is a real no-go as it's plain-text and SSH is not always possible.
I'd really like to see this feature in WHM anytime soon. FTP is a real no-go as it's plain-text and SSH is not always possible.
Plain FTP is really bad; we can't send private password in plain text. Please add TLS at least
Plain FTP is really bad; we can't send private password in plain text. Please add TLS at least
Please add support for this, The option for SFTP is not a suitable substitute as it's "SSH File Transfer Protocol" and not all destinations support it, but almost anything that supports FTP also supports FTP with SSL/TLS.
Please add support for this, The option for SFTP is not a suitable substitute as it's "SSH File Transfer Protocol" and not all destinations support it, but almost anything that supports FTP also supports FTP with SSL/TLS.
Hey all! There's a team working in the backup system for version 66, and I'm going to see if they will consider this request for inclusion in the work they're doing. I'll let you know what I find out!
Hey all! There's a team working in the backup system for version 66, and I'm going to see if they will consider this request for inclusion in the work they're doing. I'll let you know what I find out!
I'm back with good news! This request has been added to the backlog of one of our feature teams! I don't know what version it will be developed for at this point, but as soon as we're committed to a version for it I'll let you know!
I'm back with good news! This request has been added to the backlog of one of our feature teams! I don't know what version it will be developed for at this point, but as soon as we're committed to a version for it I'll let you know!
any ETA on this feature ?
GDPR new privacy regulation in ITALY mandates data is encrypted during transfer,
customers with individuals data in their database or files, should make sure backups are transferred in a protected way.
FTPS should be and easy fix
any ETA on this feature ?
GDPR new privacy regulation in ITALY mandates data is encrypted during transfer,
customers with individuals data in their database or files, should make sure backups are transferred in a protected way.
FTPS should be and easy fix
I do understand that implementing this takes time. Unfortunately, some don't have the luxury of waiting. For instance, a customer - who offer their custom web application 'as a service'. It is built on top of cPanel - using the wonderful APIs. Rather logical to use WHM/cPanels backup system, we'd say.
To work around this feature not being available just yet, they asked us to develop a script that takes care of this. Very basically put, the script encrypts the data pre-flight and ships it off to a remote location. I can't share the source code, as the agreement doesn't allow this.
The disadvantage of the current backup system, is that the remote location also has to offer some safeguards. Whilst SSH (and SFTP/rsync over SSH) does offer secure transport means, it doesn't do anything to secure the data itself. If cPanel were to offer this, that would be awesome. It isn't hard using standarized, secure protocols and userland utilities that come with most distro's - like GPG.
Do I need to make a seperate feature request for this?
I do understand that implementing this takes time. Unfortunately, some don't have the luxury of waiting. For instance, a customer - who offer their custom web application 'as a service'. It is built on top of cPanel - using the wonderful APIs. Rather logical to use WHM/cPanels backup system, we'd say.
To work around this feature not being available just yet, they asked us to develop a script that takes care of this. Very basically put, the script encrypts the data pre-flight and ships it off to a remote location. I can't share the source code, as the agreement doesn't allow this.
The disadvantage of the current backup system, is that the remote location also has to offer some safeguards. Whilst SSH (and SFTP/rsync over SSH) does offer secure transport means, it doesn't do anything to secure the data itself. If cPanel were to offer this, that would be awesome. It isn't hard using standarized, secure protocols and userland utilities that come with most distro's - like GPG.
Do I need to make a seperate feature request for this?
@benny@cpanel.net has there been any progress on this? Our company needs this feature for our backups.
@benny@cpanel.net has there been any progress on this? Our company needs this feature for our backups.
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