How to get Retrospect to see mounted sFTP volumes as a source?

[sciascia1 2]

Hi There,

 

I have a bunch of sFTP volumes mounted on the OSX desktop.

 

How do I get Retrospect to see them as a source to be backed up? I can copy data from these volumes in the Finder so everything is working on the OSX side.

 

Any help would be much appreciated.

 

Cheers

 

Ben

[Lennart_T 152]

I don't think you can do that on Retrospect 9. You have to mount the network volume using AFP or SMB from the Retrospect server GUI.

 

Which version are you running?

[sciascia1 2]

Thanks for that, we're using Retrospect 10.2.0 (201). I guess I thought that if OSX was handling the mounting, it's just another volume?

 

Anyway, backing up websites is kind of a pain, it would be nice if Retrospect could use SFTP or SSH - having a backup of company assets in the normal backup (in addition to online backups) would be really useful.

[Lennart_T 152]

Can you install the Retrospect Client software on the ftp server(s)? That would be the best solution.

[sciascia1 2]

It's a lean and mean Linux web server - is there a command line version for Debian Linux?

[Lennart_T 152]

There are Linux client to be downloaded from here:

http://www.retrospect.com/en/support/downloads

 

I have never tried Linux, so you are on your own here.

 

Here is a list of Linux versions that the client supports:

http://www.retrospect.com/en/support/kb/which-versions-of-linux-and-unix-does-the-client-support

[ggirao 47]

I have a Linux Ubuntu Client (V10) up and running:

 

Linux 3.13.0-43-generic #72-Ubuntu SMP Mon Dec 8 19:35:06 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux