[Software] backup Linux system to Windows system

[ZanyScum]

• My Linux servers do have small hard disks, I can not create an archive there.
• Is there a way to zip while doing a scp from a Windows system?
• Please keep in mind, I want to use scp (or other tools) on the Windows system and GET the data into an archive with kept rights and everything.
• I do NOT want to scp from the Linux system to the Windows system.

Currently I am even thinking about creating a local virtual Linux machine large enough to just get everything there, create an archive and then get the archive out of the VM. But that sounds so sub-optimal, I thought I 'd ask here if there is a more direct way to solve this.

[ruwolf]

I do not see any reason why it would not work.
There should be dozens of options:

• One of the easiest ways is to install Cygwin.
• You probably can use Windows Subsystem for Linux.
• Another option is to use WinSCP and, for example, this extension:
  WinSCP.net: Extensions: Archive remote files to ZIP archive, download it, and optionally extract it
• There is also plugin for FAR file manager for SFTP/SCP (and for WinSCP, too).
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