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Storage URL: sftp://username@server/path/to/storage
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Login methods include password authentication and public key authentication. However, due to a limitation of the underlying Go SSH library, if public key authentication is used, the key must be generated without a passphrase. To work with a key with a passphrase, you can set up SSH agent forwording which is also supported by Duplicacy.
Login methods include password authentication and public key authentication. Due to a limitation of the underlying Go SSH library, the key pair for public key authentication be generated without a passphrase. To work with a key that has a passphrase, you can set up SSH agent forwording which is also supported by Duplicacy.
### Dropbox
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Storage URL: dropbox://path/to/storage
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For Duplicacy to access your Dropbox storage, you must provide an access token, which can be obtained one of two ways:
For Duplicacy to access your Dropbox storage, you must provide an access token that can be obtained one of two ways:
* Create your own app on [the Dropbox Developer](https://www.dropbox.com/developers) page, and then generate an [access token](https://blogs.dropbox.com/developers/2014/05/generate-an-access-token-for-your-own-account/)
* Or authorize Duplicacy to access its own app forlder inside your Dropbox (following [this link]()), and Dropbox will generate the access token (which is not visible to us, as the redirect page showing the token is a static html hosted on github.com)
* Or authorize Duplicacy to access its own app forlder inside your Dropbox (following [this link]()), and Dropbox will generate the access token (which is not visible to us, as the redirect page showing the token is merely a static html hosted on github.com)
Dropbox has two advantages over other cloud providers. First, if you are already a paid user then to use the unused quota is basically free. Second, unlike other providers Dropbox does not charge a fee on API usage.
Dropbox has two advantages over other cloud providers. First, if you are already a paid user then to use the unused space as the backup storage is basically free. Second, unlike other providers Dropbox does not charge a fee on API usage.
### Amazon S3
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You'll need to input the account id and applicaction key.
BackBlaze offers perhaps the least expensive cloud storage at 5 cents per GB per month. Unfortunately their API does not support file naming, so the -exclusive option is required when pruning old backup. This means concurrent access and deletion can't be permitted at the same time.
BackBlaze offers perhaps the least expensive cloud storage at 0.5 cent per GB per month. Unfortunately their API does not support file renaming, so the -exclusive option is required when pruning old backups. This means concurrent access and deletion can't be permitted at the same time.