restic SFTP from Windows hangs or fails
Using restic over SFTP from Windows clients is hard because the SSH tooling freezes or fails with custom command options
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 6 April 2026 · last reported 13 April 2026
What's going wrong
A Windows user wanted to back up to a Linux server over SFTP and found that the restic command froze after an SSH prompt, and that a plink wrapper failed with a usage error.
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