No support for ssh, sftp, scp or secure transports

[desrod]

Obviously a pretty big one, but why are SSH, SFTP, SCP not supported backends for rustic?

[aawsome]

Thanks for opening this issue.

About SFTP: This is a duplicate of rustic-rs/rustic_core#11 (and SFTP actually is supported via rclone)

About SSH: This is no backend. rustic needs a storage backend where it can store and read files and list directories. SSH is a remote shell which of course can also be used as transport layer for a file transfer protocol, but then we are at SFTP.

About SCP: Here the functionality of listing directories is missing.

About secure transports in general: The REST backend supports accessing a REST server via https. Here are two use-cases:

• run the REST server an a remote storage server and access it via --repository rest:https://<server>:port. There is also https://github.com/aawsome/rust-server.
• run rclone serve restic which can expose the REST api to a remote client running rustic/restic. This use-case is especially interesting when using the --append-only option of rclone.

[aawsome]

IMO this boils down to SFTP support and therefore is a duplicate of rustic-rs/rustic_core#11.
I'm closing this issue - feel free to reopen if there is an aspect I didn't see!