NO FTP Acesss, trying to backup files

[cd34]

if ssh works, can you create a tarball and download the tarball via the web?

tar czf whatever.tgz *

its possible that sftp is failing because of a message being printed in the .profile/.bashrc -- I know rsync has a problem with that at times.

if ssh works from the remote server, you could do something like:

rsync user@firstserverublic_html/ localdir/

or

ssh user@firstserver "cd directorytogoto;tar cf - *" | tar xf -

or if you can put the tarball in a web accessible place, from remote server:

wget http://firstserver.com/tarball.tgz

You might have a version mismatch which is causing sftp & securecrt to conflict, i.e. maybe the server is older and doesn't support ssh2 and one or the other refuses to use ssh2.

Many different possible problems that I can think of -- one of the above should get you working.