Overview   

Improve the bulk data recovery experience 

One of the major pain points reported with x360Recover backups is the relative inefficiency of recovering data using the classic File Browser mechanism.

File Browser was originally built to download a few document files, or a couple of virtual disk images. More efficient iSCSI connections were meant to be used for any bulk data recovery or bare metal restores (BMR). Unfortunately, this means File Browser isn't ideal as the primary means for cloud recovery of endpoints. 

To improve this experience, we introduced support for file and folder recovery over FTPS.

Need information on FTPS for private vaults?

What is FTP? And what is FTPS?

NOTE: x360Recover supports only FTPS.

• FTP (File-Transfer-Protocol) predates the public internet and is actually older than the HTTP (Hyper-Text-Transport-Protocol) we are all familiar with in everyday web browsing. FTP is an internet protocol specifically designed for managing files on a remote server host. Most FTP clients look and act like the operating system file explorer which most users are familiar with.    
• FTPS is essentially secure FTP. 

What can FTP do?

FTP has attributes that make it superior to HTTP for managing remote file operations:

• By default, FTP supports browsing and traversing a folder tree
• FTP file transfers can be resumed when interrupted
• FTP supports segmented multi-threaded file transfers for better performance

Advantages of the FTP recovery method :

• Available on both appliances and vaults
• Robust native internet protocol specifically designed for file and folder transfers
• Optimized for performance over internet connections
• Interrupted downloads can be resumed in place
• Suitable for very large files or many folders

Disadvantages of this FTP recovery method:

• Doesn’t preserve original file and folder permissions
• Requires an FTPS client application on the user system
• May require additional configuration of the FTPS client for optimal performance 

How do I enable FTPS in x36ORecover?

Click for instructions to enable FTPS here:

FTP clients

To use FTPS, you must first install an FTP client.

• If you already have your FTP client,  read the instructions here to get started with FTP

IMPORTANT:  By default, most FTP clients are NOT configured to preserve the original time stamp of files being transferred. If you need to preserve the original file system time stamp on files being downloaded for recovery, you must adjust the default settings for your FTP client. For instructions on how to do this, please see Enable FTP client timestamps.

Recommended FTP client: LFTP4WIN

• Read more about LFTP4WIN here: LFTP4WIN: Linux FTP client for Windows

We recommend using LFTP, a light-weight text-based FTP client for Linux that is heavily optimized for speed and performance, including segmented downloads by default. 

LFTP4WIN is an open-source project that has streamlined the delivery of LFTP for use on Windows machines  by combining a minimalist deployment of Cygwin with an extensively customized version of WinSCP. With this combination, the project has provided an easy-to-use GUI user interface (in the form of a customized WinSCP) with the high-performance download capability of LFTP running on Windows.  

Read more about LFTP4WIN here: LFTP4WIN: Linux FTP client for Windows

Get the zipped installation script file by clicking this link:

LFTW4WIN-installer.cmd  

You will need to unzip the file after you download it.

Additional free FTP client options:

Filezilla is probably the best known free open-source FTP client. It is full-featured, cross-platform, user-friendly, and has a large open-source community supporting and maintaining it.  

• Download Filezilla for Windows here.

WinSCP is another popular free open-source Windows client It supports multiple protocols, including SSH, SFTP, FTPS, Google Cloud, and Amazon S3.  

• Download WinSCP here.

Ready to get started?

Click here to learn how to  Use FTPS

• Need information on FTPS for private vaults?
• Download Filezilla for Windows here.
• Download WinSCP here.
• LFTP4WIN: Linux FTP client for Windows

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