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FTP can be encrypted.
FTP over SSL/TLS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTPS
SSH FTP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSH_File_Transfer_Protocol
Thnx. But from soyoustart I guess it's not possible?
These are kind of different protocols with different use case.
I assume you are looking at backup solutions? On a Cpanel box perhaps?
If so, I quite like using CIFS. You mount it to the server and it appears like a directory as a disk partition does. So you can mount your CIFS storage to /backup, then tell CPanel to push all backups to /backup, and it will works quite nicely.
It also makes 'moving' the backups around quite easy between servers.
I wouldn't say it's better than FTP exactly, but there are certain conveniences which are nice.
They support FTPS, read the OVH documentation about the backup space. You need to pay a small fee to have CIFS/NFS enabled anyways.
Guess it's only for ovh servers and not soyoustart... only ftp is free. Others are paid (cifs nfs)
FTP and FTPS are ran from the same service.