Other than WinSCP, is there a program that can do an SFTP file synchronization of folders in Windows? I'd like to find a simple way to add directories to be backed up to my SFTP server. I'd like to run it as a scheduled task each night.

I am able to do this with WinSCP, but since my scripting is horrible, I have about 10 configuration files for each transfer and adding new ones is a paid in the neck.

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What about making your WinSCP script easier to maintain?

I suppose all you need is to put one synchronize command per directory to your script. That does not sound too difficult to maintain.

I.e. your script (script.txt) would be like:

open sftp://user: -hostkey="server_hostkey"
# one synchronize command per directory
synchronize remote C:\local_directory1 /home/user/remote_directory1
synchronize remote C:\local_directory2 /home/user/remote_directory2
...
synchronize remote C:\local_directoryN /home/user/remote_directoryN
exit

And you add a task to Windows Scheduler with command-line like:

"C:\Program Files\WinSCP\WinSCP.exe" "/script=path_to_script\script.txt" "/log=path_to_script\script.log"

Ideally also add the /ini=nul to command-line to isolate your script from environment.

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