Technical Tip: Support on backup with SFTP protocol

[hlngan]

Description

This article describes if FortiGate is supporting using SFTP protocol.

Scope

FortiGate.

Solution

Backup from CLI is not supported with SFTP protocol.

The following option is available:

exe backup full-config
ftp         <----- Backup full config file to FTP server.
tftp        <----- Backup full config file to TFTP server.
usb         <----- Backup full config file to USB disk.
usb-mode    <----- Backup full config file for USB mode.

From v7.0.1 onwards, SFTP is supported: SFTP Configuration Backup