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# How to connect your SFTP storage

Weap.io allows you to store your backups on an SFTP storage.

## Connect any SFTP storage

Open the Weap.io dashboard, go to the storages page and click the button `Add new storage`.

In the modal select `SFTP` and fill the form with the details of your SFTP server.

* `host`: the host of your SFTP server
* `user`: the user of your SFTP server
* `password`: the password of your SFTP server
* `port`: the port of your SFTP server. `22` is the default one

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## Connect a Hetzner Storage Box via SFTP

In order to connect a Hetzner Storage Box, follow the same stepts as connecting any SFTP storage but fill the form with the details of the storage box.

* `host`: The host of the server is found on the Storage Box details page. In our example is `u142873.your-storagebox.de`
* `user`: The user is the first part of the host. In our example is `u142873`
* `password`: the password you received when your Storage Box was created. In case you don't find it, you can always reset it and get a new one
* `port`: the storage boxes from Hetzner are using the default SSH port which is `22`

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