The Secure Shell — SSH — allows you to send secure, encrypted, communications between computers that is nearly impossible to crack. Here's how to use it in macOS.

Connecting to FTP in the Finder In macOS's Finder you connect to an FTP server by using the Go->Connect to Server menu item in the Finder's menu bar at the top of the display.

PuTTY allows one to create a command-line session on a remote Linux host. To connect to main- or VIMS campus HPC front-end hosts (such as bora.sciclone.wm.edu or james.hpc.vims.edu) using PuTTY, add ...

Then, upload the backup file to the tmp directory. Once done, connect to the target using PuTTY and run the following command.