After all of these years I am surprised at the number of new clients that are written against an SFTP back-end.

For instance, foldersync[1], restic[2], rclone[3][4], and for ESX(i) (!!) I have just learned of "VerticalBackup"[5].

It makes me happy that a stock, standard OpenSSH serving up what is basically a UNIX home directory is still so powerful and useful.

Contrast this with the elegance and state of the art that is ZFS and how immutable snapshots simultaneously solve both retention schedules and ransomware/mallory[6].

[1] https://www.tacit.dk/foldersync/

[2] https://restic.net/

[3] https://rclone.org/

[4] https://rsync.net/products/rclone.html

[5] https://verticalbackup.com/

[6] https://www.rsync.net/resources/howto/snapshots.html