Title: Cannot connect to FTP server
Last modified: November 1, 2016

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# Cannot connect to FTP server

 *  [gld](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gld/)
 * (@gld)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-connect-to-ftp-server/)
 * I’ve seen several posts relating to failure to connect to an FTP server but none
   of them seem to help (so far). I have a site that uses backup Buddy and this 
   works and backs up to our sFTP server without issue. BackWPUp however fails to
   be able to do so. Credentials etc are all set up the same. Any ideas why not?
 * Thanks
    Greg

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