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FTP Server Encryption

Hi Folks,

I have a few basic questions about setting up a new FTP server.

I hope to get a server like ipswitch FTP server, gene6 or titanftp as these are encrypted. Does this mean that when a user connects to my FTP server (even with a basic ftp client), that their username/password, uploads and downloads are encrypted?

do the clients need any encryption software on their end?

Another question regarding disaster recovery -
I'm looking to back up this data to another site - what would be the best way of doing this? would it be to replicate the data in realtime as I'd like our FTP server to be available 24/7 even if our network on our primary site went down..

Thanks in advance,

Paul

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Thanks for your help so far!

so if the client does not have encryption capability the data will not be encrypted...will they even be able to connect to the server?

I think we use a program called replistor at the moment... to replicate the data!

thanks,

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Thanks for that guys!