It allows files to be backed up to any local or network drive, FTP or SFTP server, CD/DVD/Blu-ray, or other removable media.
KIO slaves are programs that provide support for individual protocols (e.g. HTTP, FTP, SMB, SSH, FISH, SFTP, SVN, TAR).
SSH File Transfer Protocol, a file transfer protocol specifically developed by the IETF to run over secure shell connections
Transmission Control Protocol | File Transfer Protocol | Session Initiation Protocol | User Datagram Protocol | BitTorrent (protocol) | The Manhattan Transfer | Kyoto Protocol | Internet Protocol | Post Office Protocol | SSH | Asynchronous Transfer Mode | Program and System Information Protocol | Tagged Image File Format | Simple Network Management Protocol | Internet Message Access Protocol | Network File System (protocol) | Hypertext Transfer Protocol | Computer file | Lightweight Directory Access Protocol | File system | file format | Secure Real-time Transport Protocol | Real-time Transport Protocol | Manhattan Transfer | Transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong | transfer | Simple Mail Transfer Protocol | Montreal Protocol | Communications protocol | BMP file format |
GVFS is the virtual filesystem for the GNOME desktop, which allows users easy access to remote data via SFTP, FTP, WebDAV, SMB, and local data via Udev integration, OBEX, MTP and others.
In order to transport these files, Niklas supports FTP/SFTP, HTTP/HTTPS, POP3, SMTP, IMAP, SOAP, MQ and JMS.