How can I secure this FTP folder?

[::Gomez::]

Hi, I am backing up a server into an FTP. My main concern is that I anyone can access that backups by simple typing http://200.22.XXX.XX/santiago/backupname.tar.gz

Actually backup is set to send the file to /home/santiago/public_html/*.*

WIch is the easiest way to protect that folder with a password without having any trouble with the actual backup configuration? 

 

Thanks!

[nub]

Store it outside of the public_html folder

[+BudMan MVC]

are you sending this backup to ftp via ftp, or is it backed up on the server and just placed in that folder that happens to be open to anonymous ftp?

[BinaryData]

  On 12/08/2015 at 14:43, nub said:

Store it outside of the public_html folder

This works, but still better to protect it.

  On 12/08/2015 at 14:38, ::Gomez:: said:

Hi, I am backing up a server into an FTP. My main concern is that I anyone can access that backups by simple typing http://200.22.XXX.XX/santiago/backupname.tar.gz

Actually backup is set to send the file to /home/santiago/public_html/*.*

WIch is the easiest way to protect that folder with a password without having any trouble with the actual backup configuration? 

 

Thanks!

If it's a temporary storage situation, I'd suggest using htaccess to set a Username/password.

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[::Gomez::]

  On 12/08/2015 at 18:10, BinaryData said:

This works, but still better to protect it.

If it's a temporary storage situation, I'd suggest using htaccess to set a Username/password.
Tutorial + Generator

 

Great! will test it and let you know!

[+BudMan MVC]

you still haven't said are you backing up via ftp to this server.  Or on the server backing up to a folder that is open via anon ftp?

I have to wonder why either way you would be backup files in a folder that is open to anon ftp in the first place?  To be honest I would just turn off ftp and use sftp.